Hyophorbe: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Arecales
- Family
- Arecaceae
- Genus
- Hyophorbe
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Hyophorbe
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Hyophorbe
Hyophorbe is a genus of five known species of flowering plants in the family Arecaceae, native to the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean. All five species can attain heights of over 6 meters, and two of the species develop swollen trunks that have made them popular as ornamentals, but all of them are endangered in the wild.
It contains the following species:
- Hyophorbe amaricaulis Mart. – Mauritius, 1 individual left
- Hyophorbe indica Gaertn. (palmiste poison) – Réunion
- Hyophorbe lagenicaulis (L.H.Bailey) H.E.Moore (bottle palm) – Mauritius
- Hyophorbe vaughanii L.H.Bailey – Mauritius
- Hyophorbe verschaffeltii H.Wendl. (palmiste marron) – Rodrigues Island
Hyophorbe in languages:
- Chinese
- 酒瓶椰子屬
- Czech
- hyoforbe
- Japanese
- トックリヤシ属
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Acanthophoenix
- Actinokentia
- Actinorhytis
- Adonidia
- Archontophoenix
- Areca
- Balaka
- Basselinia
- Bentinckia
- Brassiophoenix
- Burretiokentia
- Calyptrocalyx
- Carpentaria
- Carpoxylon
- Chamaedorea
- Chambeyronia
- Clinosperma
- Clinostigma
- Cocoseae
- Cyphokentia
- Cyphophoenix
- Cyphosperma
- Cyrtostachys
- Deckenia
- Dictyosperma
- Dransfieldia
- Drymophloeus
- Dypsis
- Euterpe
- Gaussia
- Geonomateae
- Hedyscepe
- Heterospathe
- Howea
- Hydriastele
- Hyophorbe
- Hyospathe
- Iguanura
- Iriarteeae
- Jailoloa
- Laccospadix
- Lemurophoenix
- Leopoldinia
- Lepidorrhachis
- Linospadicinae
- Linospadix
- Loxococcus
- Manicaria
- Manjekia
- Marojejya
- Masoala
- Nenga
- Neonicholsonia
- Neoveitchia
- Nephrosperma
- Normanbya
- Oenocarpus
- Oncosperma
- Orania
- Pelagodoxa
- Phoenicophorium
- Physokentia
- Pinanga
- Podococcus
- Ponapea
- Prestoea
- Ptychococcus
- Ptychosperma
- Reinhardtia
- Rhopaloblaste
- Rhopalostylis
- Roscheria
- Roystonea
- Satakentia
- Sclerosperma
- Sommieria
- Synechanthus
- Tectiphiala
- Veitchia
- Verschaffeltia
- Wallaceodoxa
- Wendlandiella
- Wodyetia































































































