Acrocomia crispa
Species of palm / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Acrocomia crispa, the Cuban belly palm or corojo, a palm species which is endemic to Cuba. Formerly placed in its own genus, Gastrococos, recent work found that that genus was nested within Acrocomia.[2] It is a tall, spiny palm with a trunk that is slender at the base, but swollen in the middle, giving it the name "Cuban belly palm" in English.[3]
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Acrocomia crispa | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Arecales |
Family: | Arecaceae |
Genus: | Acrocomia |
Species: | A. crispa |
Binomial name | |
Acrocomia crispa | |
Synonyms | |
Acrocomia armentalis (Morales [es]) L.H. Bailey |
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