Copernicia macroglossa

Copernicia macroglossa

Copernicia macroglossa is an endemic palm species in Cuba. The Style epithet means large tongue and refers to the Hastula.

Features

The strains of adult palms are tall with a diameter of about 20 cm to 5 m. In young plants it is occupied with dead leaves, so that the strain of the same width as the crown appears. This is 4 to 5 meters wide and high. The leaves of this fan palm are 1.5 to 2 m wide, wedge-shaped or semi-circular. The petiole is short and extends only a short distance into the leaf blade into it. The leaf blade is cut to one-third of the length in many stiff, narrow lanceolate segments. The upper leaf surface is light to dark green, the underside gray-green and waxy. The Hastula on the upper leaf surface is relatively long and above. The leaf segments are finely toothed. The crown sheet of older palms is usually round and full, the leaves are tight and give the impression of a yucca than a palm tree. The dead leaves on the trunk look like a haystack.

The inflorescence is at least 1.8 m long and extends over the crown of leaves out. The flowers are brownish yellow and hermaphrodite. The fruits are about 1.2 cm wide, round and black.

Dissemination

Copernicia macroglossa is in the northwest of Cuba endemic and grows in savannas and in salt marshes near the coast.

Documents

• Robert Lee Riffle, Paul Craft: An Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms, 4th edition, Timber Press, Portland, 2007, ISBN 978-0-88192-558-6, p 312

• Palmaceus
• Arecaceae