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Adonidia merrillii, the Manila palm, is a palm tree species native to the Philippines (Palawan and Danjugan Island). [1] This palm was cultivated for centuries in East Asia before becoming a staple in the West. It is reportedly naturalized in the West Indies and Florida. [3]
Veitchia subdisticha (H.E.Moore) C.Lewis & Zona - Solomon Islands; Veitchia vitiensis (H.Wendl.) H.E.Moore - Fiji; Veitchia winin H.E.Moore - Vanuatu; From 1957 to 2008, the Adonidia genus had been merged into Veitchia until being returned to its original status as a separate genus. This is the origin of the Veitchia merrillii name. [4]
The first, and better known, is the Manila palm (Adonidia merrillii), which is native to the Philippines (Palawan and Danjugan Island) and is reportedly naturalized in the West Indies. [6] The second is Adonidia dransfieldii, native to Sabah in Borneo and first described in 2015. [3]
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Adonidia - Balaka - Brassiophoenix - Carpentaria - Drymophloeus - Manjekia - Normanbya - Ponapea - Ptychococcus - Ptychosperma - Veitchia - Wodyetia Ptychospermatinae is a palm tree subtribe in the tribe Areceae .
The leaves are palmate (fan-shaped), with segments joined to each other for about half of their length, and are 1–2 m (3.3–6.6 ft) wide, light-green above, and silver underneath. The leaf petiole is 1–1.2 m (3.3–3.9 ft) long, and has orange, curved, sharp teeth along the edges.
John Gould Veitch (April 1839 – 13 August 1870) was a British horticulturist and traveller, one of the first Victorian plant hunters to visit Japan. A great-grandson of John Veitch, the founder of the Veitch horticulture dynasty, he also visited the Philippines, Australia, Fiji, and other Polynesian islands.
Wettinia is a genus of flowering plants in the palm family Arecaceae.The genus, established in 1837, contains some 20 species, but more seem to await discovery considering that 4 species - W. aequatorialis, W. lanata, W. minima and W. panamensis - were described as late as 1995.