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Latania
Red latan palm
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
Tribe: Borasseae
Genus: Latania
Comm.exJuss.
Type species
Latania lontaroides

Synonyms[1]
  • Cleophora Gaertn.

Latania, commonly known as latan palmorlatania palm, is a genusofflowering plant in the palm tree family, native to the Mascarene Islands in the western Indian Ocean.[1][2]

Species

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The genus contains three species, one from each of the three major islands (including islets) in the chain. All species have been ranked as Endangered by the IUCN.[3]

Image Leaves Common Name Scientific name Native Distribution
blue latan palm, latanier de l'Ile Ronde Latania loddigesii Mart. Mauritius
red latan palm, latanier de la Réunion Latania lontaroides (Gaertn.) H.E.Moore Réunion
yellow latan palm, latanier de Rodrigues Latania verschaffeltii Lem. Rodrigues Island


Latan palms are large, single-stemmed fan palms with separate male and female plants (dioecy); when the leaves fall, they leave scars on the trunks. Male flowers are small, in clusters, and emerge from within leathery bracts on the catkin-like inflorescences. Female flowers are larger, solitary and not concealed within bracts. The fruits contain 1-3 pyrenes, which are seeds enclosed within woody endocarps.[4] The endocarps have sculpted surfaces and the three species are readily distinguished from their pyrenes.[5]

Pyrenes (seeds within endocarps) of the three species of Latania: left, L. verschaffeltii; middle, L. lontaroides; right, L. loddigesii


References

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  • ^ Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • ^ "Latania conservation status". www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
  • ^ Dransfield, John; Uhl, Natalie W.; Asmussen, Conny B.; Baker, William J.; Harley, Madeline M.; Lewis, Carl E. (2008). Genera Palmarum - Evolution and Classification of Palms. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 978-1842461822.
  • ^ Bayton, Ross P. Borassus L. and the borassoid palms - systematics and evolution (PhD Thesis). University of Reading.
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