Lepidocaryeae is a
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confl ...
of plants in the family
Arecaceae. Subtribes and genera in the tribe are:
*Subtribe
Ancistrophyllinae
Ancistrophyllinae is a subtribe of plants in the family Arecaceae
The Arecaceae is a family of perennial flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all commonl ...
– Africa
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Oncocalamus
''Oncocalamus'' is a monoecious genus of flowering plants in the palm family found in western Africa. The genus is the lone member of the Oncocalaminae; once placed with the vegetatively similar '' Eremospatha'' and '' Laccosperma'' in the ...
'' – Central Africa
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Eremospatha
''Eremospatha'' is a genus of climbing flowering plants in the palm family found in tropical Africa. These rattans are uncommon in cultivation and poorly understood by taxonomists;. Closely related to '' Laccosperma'', they differentiated by th ...
'' – Africa
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Laccosperma
''Laccosperma'' is a clustering genus of flowering plant in the family palm found in tropical Africa. Poorly studied and rarely cultivated, they are closely related to the genus ''Eremospatha'' and with it form a tribe in the '' Calameae'' chara ...
'' – Africa
*Subtribe
Raphiinae
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Raphia'' – Africa, Madagascar, parts of South America
*Subtribe
Mauritiinae – northern South America
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Lepidocaryum
''Lepidocaryum'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the palm family from South America where the lone species, ''Lepidocaryum tenue'', is commonly called poktamui. Nine species names have been published, but palm taxonomists currently agr ...
'' – central Amazon basin
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Mauritia
''Mauritia'' is a genus of fan palms which is native to northern South America and to the Island of Trinidad
Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies off the northeastern ...
'' – northern South America
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Mauritiella'' – northern South America
See also
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List of Arecaceae genera
This is a list of all the genera in the botanical family Arecaceae, the palm family, based on Baker & Dransfield (2016), which is a revised listing of genera given in the 2008 edition of ''Genera Palmarum''.
Taxonomy
This is a list of all the g ...
References
External links
Monocot tribes
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