Prestoea

Prestoea
	Prestoea acuminata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Arecales
Family:	Arecaceae
Subfamily:	Arecoideae
Tribe:	Euterpeae
Genus:	Prestoea; Hook.f.
Type species
	Prestoea pubigera; (Griseb. & H. Wendl.) Hook. f.
Diversity
	See text
Synonyms
	Euterpe Gaertn.; Martinezia Ruiz & Pav.; Oreodoxa Willd.; Acrista O.F.Cook;

Prestoea is a genus of palms native to the Caribbean, Central and South America. Its range extends from Nicaragua and the Greater Antilles in the north to Brazil and Bolivia in the south.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Species

Prestoea acuminata (Willd.) H.E.Moore - Central America (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama), West Indies, northwestern South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia)
Prestoea carderi (W.Bull) Hook.f. - Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru
Prestoea decurrens H.E.Moore - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
Prestoea ensiformis (Ruiz & Pav.) H.E.Moore - Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
Prestoea longipetiolata (Oerst.) H.E.Moore - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela
Prestoea montana (Graham) G.Nicholson; (Willd.) H.E. Moore - Greater and Lesser Antilles
Prestoea pubens H.E.Moore - Panama, Colombia
Prestoea pubigera (Griseb. & H.Wendl.) Hook.f. - Venezuela, Trinidad
Prestoea schultzeana (Burret) H.E.Moore - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador. Peru, Brazil
Prestoea simplicifolia Galeano - Antioquia region of Colombia
Prestoea tenuiramosa (Dammer) H.E.Moore - Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil

^ "Prestoea Hook. f". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2007-10-05. Archived from the original on 2009-05-07. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
^ ^a ^b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
^ Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2005). Monocotyledons and Gymnosperms of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 52: 1-415.
^ "Prestoea — The Plant List". www.theplantlist.org. Retrieved 2019-05-08.

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Prestoea

Prestoea acuminata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Arecales
Family:	Arecaceae
Subfamily:	Arecoideae
Tribe:	Euterpeae
Genus:	Prestoea Hook.f.^[1]
Type species
Prestoea pubigera (Griseb. & H. Wendl.) Hook. f.
Diversity
See text
Synonyms^[2]
Euterpe Gaertn. Martinezia Ruiz & Pav. Oreodoxa Willd. Acrista O.F.Cook