Carpoxylon macrospermum is a species of palm tree endemic to Vanuatu, and the only species in the genus Carpoxylon.[4]
Carpoxylon | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Arecales |
Family: | Arecaceae |
Subfamily: | Arecoideae |
Tribe: | Areceae |
Subtribe: | Carpoxylinae |
Genus: | Carpoxylon H.Wendl. & Drude |
Species: | C. macrospermum |
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Carpoxylon macrospermum | |
It is an IUCN Red List Critically endangered species, threatened by habitat loss.[1]
This palm was first described by Hermann Wendland and Carl Georg Oscar Drude in 1875 in Linnaea.[2][3]
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Arecoideae |
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Taxon identifiers | |
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Carpoxylon |
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Carpoxylon macrospermum |
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