Cyrtostachys
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Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
in the Arecaceae
Arecaceae
Arecaceae or Palmae , are a family of flowering plants, the only family in the monocot order Arecales. There are roughly 202 currently known genera with around 2600 species, most of which are restricted to tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate climates...
(palms) family. It's species are found in some of the South-Central and Southwest Pacific island habitat
Habitat
* Habitat , a place where a species lives and grows*Human habitat, a place where humans live, work or play** Space habitat, a space station intended as a permanent settlement...
s of the Oceania ecozone
Oceania ecozone
Oceania is one of the WWF ecozones, and unique in not including any continental land mass. The ecozone includes the Pacific Ocean islands of Micronesia, the Fijian Islands, and most of Polynesia...
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Species include:
- Cyrtostachys bakeri
- Cyrtostachys kisuCyrtostachys kisuCyrtostachys kisu is a species of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.It is found only in Solomon Islands.It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Dowl, J.L. 1998. . Downloaded on 20 July 2007....
- endemic to the Solomon IslandsSolomon IslandsSolomon Islands is a sovereign state in Oceania, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands. It covers a land mass of . The capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal... - Cyrtostachys renda - Red candle-wax palm