Schippia

Schippia concolor is a native palm species in Central America. It is the only species of the genus Schippia.

Features

Schippia is a moderately large, single -stemmed, non-reinforced, several times a flourishing fan palm. The stem is slender, longitudinally striped, rough and bears raised leaf scars. The leaves are induplicat (V -shaped) folded, and Palmat until shortly costapalmat. The leaf stalk is very long. The leaf blade is beyond the center divided into narrow to verschmälernde, simply folded segments whose peaks are unequal and very shortly bifid. The lower leaf surface is brighter.

The inflorescence is single, between the sheets ( interfoliar ) and is significantly shorter than the leaves. He is usually branched twice, rarely three times. The peduncle is usually short. The flowers have a long, stalk -like base. The lower petals each flower-bearing axis are hermaphroditic, the upper ones are male. The ovary consists of a carpel. The number of stamens per flower is 6.

The fruit is globose, the scars radical apically. The exocarp is smooth, that mesocarp thin and fleshy; endocarp is smooth and membranous.

The chromosome number is 2n = 36

Dissemination and locations

Schippia concolor occurs only in Belize and Guatemala, where it grows in the understory of the tropical rainforest.

System

The genus Schippia is placed in the subfamily Coryphoideae, Tribe Cryosophileae within the family Arecaceae. Their systematic position within the tribe is not yet finally resolved.

In the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, just the way Schippia concolor is recognized, it is also the only kind previously described

The genus name Schippia reminiscent of the plant collector William A. Schipp (1891-1967), who collected the first specimens of this species. The first description of genus and species was carried out in 1933 by Max burret.

Documents

• John Dransfield, Natalie W. Uhl, Conny B. Asmussen, William J. Baker, Madeline M. Harley, Carl E. Lewis: Genera palmarum. The Evolution and Classification of Palms. Second edition, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2008, ISBN 978-1-84246-182-2, pp. 219ff.