Prestoea Explained

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.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

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

Notes and References

1. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=165270 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
3. 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.
4. Web site: Prestoea — The Plant List. www.theplantlist.org. 2019-05-08.