Geonoma is a genus of small to medium-sized palms native to the forest understorey of tropical Central and South America.
This palm genus is one of the largest in the Neotropics[1]. Its 64 species are distributed from Mexico and Haiti in the north to Paraguay in the south; two are found in the insular Caribbean[2].
Species now placed elsewhere include Calyptronoma occidentalis (= Geonoma swartzii) and Calyptronoma plumeriana (= Geonoma dulcis, G. intermedia, plumeriana).
[edit] References
- ^ Henderson et al. (1995)
- ^ Morici (2004)
- ^ Govaerts et al. (2008)
- Govaerts, R.; Dransfield, J.; Zona, S.F; Hodel, D.R. & Henderson, Andrew (2008): Geonoma. In: World Checklist of Arecaceae. Retrieved 2008-APR-01.
- Henderson, Andrew; Galeano, Gloria & Bernal, Rodrigo (1995): Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. ISBN 0-691-08537-4 HTML preview at Google Books
- Morici, Carlo (2004): Palmeras e Islas: La Insularidad en una de las Familias más Diversas del Reino Vegetal. In: Fernández-Palacios, J.M. & Morici, C.[verification needed]: Ecología Insular/Island Ecology: 81-122. Asociatión Española de Ecología Terestre (AEET)-Cabildo Insular de La Palma [in Spanish]. PDF fulltext
