Pritchardia wrightii
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Pritchardia wrightii, Becc. (Colpothrinax Wrightii, Wendl.). Barrel or Bottle Palm. Palma Barrigona. Fig. 3194; also Fig. 2725, p. 2437. Formerly retained in Colpothrinax, as the only species, but recently (1907) transferred to Pritchardia by Beccari: st. single, rising for 3-6 ft. or more, at first cylindrical but gradually increasing in thickness in a bottle-like or flask-like form, the trunk slender and ascending beyond this part till the whole reaches 30-40 ft.: lvs. circular in outline, more than 5 ft. across, suborbicular, flabellate- radiate, regularly divided into about 80 segms. about 4 1/4 ft. long; segms. rigid, slightly leathery, pale green, very glabrous and shining: spadix simply duplicate- branched; spathes 2, slightly leathery, red-brown: fls. sessile: fr. globose, 1-celled. Sandy savannas in Pinar del Rio, Cuba.—A very striking palm is indicated in Fig. 3194, which is drawn from photo-illustration in Pomona College Journ. Ec. Bot., vol. 3. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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