Pritchardia

Pritchardia limahuliensis

Pritchardia palms

The genus Pritchardia (family Arecaceae) consists of between 24 and 40 species of fan palms (subfamily Coryphoideae) found on tropical Pacific Ocean islands in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tuamotus, and most diversely in Hawaii.<ref name=aloha>Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families</ref><ref>Hodel, D.R. (2007). A review of the genus Pritchardia. Palms; Journal of the International Palm Society 51(Suppl.): 1-53.</ref> The generic name honors William Thomas Pritchard (1829–1907), a British consul at Fiji.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Description

These palms vary in height, ranging from Template:Convert.<ref name="Riffle">Template:Cite book</ref> The leaves are fan-shaped (costapalmate) and the trunk columnar, naked, smooth or fibrous, longitudinally grooved, and obscurely ringed by leaf scars. The flowers and subsequent fruit are borne in a terminal cluster with simple or compound branches of an arcuate or pendulous inflorescence that (in some species) is longer than the leaves.

Species

There are 29 known species,<ref name = powo>Template:Cite web</ref> of which 19 are endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, with the remainder on other island groups. Many are critically endangered. Oahu has the most named Pritchardia species of any of the Hawaiian islands, with nine named species on record in 1980. Eight of those species can be found in the rainy Koolau Range.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

• Pritchardia affinis Becc. – HawaiTemplate:Okinai Pritchardia<ref name="ITIS">Template:ITIS</ref> ([[Hawaii (island)|Island of HawaiTemplate:Okinai]])
• Pritchardia arecina Becc. – Maui Pritchardia<ref name="ITIS"/> (Maui, Hawaii)<ref name="Riffle"/>
• Pritchardia aylmer-robinsonii H.St.John ([[Niihau|NiTemplate:Okinaihau]], Hawaii)
• Pritchardia bakeri Template:Small – (Oahu, Hawaiian Islands)
• Pritchardia beccariana Rock – Kilauea Pritchardia<ref name="ITIS"/> (Island of HawaiTemplate:Okinai)<ref name="Riffle"/>
• Pritchardia flynnii Lorence & Gemmill ([[Kauai|KauaTemplate:Okinai]], Hawaii)
• Pritchardia forbesiana Rock – Mt. Eke Pritchardia<ref name="ITIS"/> (Maui, Hawaii)
• Pritchardia glabrata Becc. & Rock (Maui, Hawaii)
• Pritchardia gordonii Template:Small (Hawaii: Kohala Mountains)
• Pritchardia hardyi Rock – Makaleha Pritchardia<ref name="ITIS"/> ([[Kauai|KauaTemplate:Okinai]], Hawaii)
• Pritchardia hillebrandii (Kuntze) Becc.<ref name="ITIS"/> (Native range uncertain, but believed to be [[Molokai|MolokaTemplate:Okinai]], Hawaii)<ref name="Riffle"/>
• Pritchardia kaalae Rock – WaiTemplate:Okinaanae Range Pritchardia<ref name="ITIS"/> ([[Oahu|OTemplate:Okinaahu]], Hawaii)
• Pritchardia kahukuensis Template:Small – (Oahu: NW. Koolau Mountains)
• Pritchardia lanaiensis Becc. & Rock – LānaTemplate:Okinai Pritchardia<ref name="ITIS"/> ([[Lanai|LānaTemplate:Okinai]], Hawaii)
• Pritchardia lanigera Becc. (Island of HawaiTemplate:Okinai)
• Pritchardia limahuliensis H.St.John (KauaTemplate:Okinai, Hawaii)
• Pritchardia lowreyana Rock – MolokaTemplate:Okinai Pritchardia<ref name="ITIS"/> (MolokaTemplate:Okinai, Hawaii)
• Pritchardia maideniana (Unknown origin, possibly Fiji or Tonga)<ref name="Riffle"/>
• Pritchardia martii (Gaud.) H.Wendl – KoTemplate:Okinaolau Range pritchardia<ref name="ITIS"/> (syn. P. gaudichaudii) (OTemplate:Okinaahu, Hawaii)
• Pritchardia minor Becc. – AlakaTemplate:Okinai Swamp Pritchardia<ref name="ITIS"/> (KauaTemplate:Okinai, Hawaii)
• Pritchardia mitiaroana Dransfield & Ehrhardt (Mitiaro, Cook Islands)<ref name="Riffle"/>
• Pritchardia munroi Rock – Kamalo Pritchardia<ref name="ITIS"/> (MolokaTemplate:Okinai, Hawaii)
• Pritchardia napaliensis H.St.John (KauaTemplate:Okinai, Hawaii)
• Pritchardia pacifica Seem. & H.Wendl. (Fiji, Tonga, Samoa)
• Pritchardia perlmanii Gemmill (KauaTemplate:Okinai, Hawaii)
• Pritchardia remota Becc. – Nīhoa Pritchardia<ref name="ITIS"/> (Nīhoa, Hawaii)
• Pritchardia schattaueri Hodel – Giant Pritchardia (Island of HawaiTemplate:Okinai)
• Pritchardia tahuatana Template:Small (Marquesas: Tahuata and Fatu Hiva)
• Pritchardia thurstonii F.Muell. & Drude (Fiji and Tonga)
• Pritchardia viscosa Becc. – Stickybud Pritchardia<ref name="ITIS"/> (KauaTemplate:Okinai, Hawaii)
• Pritchardia vuylstekeana H.Wendl. – Tuamotu Archipelago
• Pritchardia waialealeana R.W.Read (KauaTemplate:Okinai, Hawaii)
• Pritchardia woodfordiana (Solomon Islands)
• Pritchardia woodii Hodel (Maui, Hawaii)
• †Pritchardia sp. "Laysan" (Laysan†)

Formerly placed here

• Licuala grandis (hort. ex W. Bull) H.Wendl. (as P. grandis hort. ex W. Bull) (Vanuatu)
• Washingtonia filifera (Linden ex André) H.Wendl. (as P. filamentosa H.Wendl. ex Franceschi or P. filifera Linden ex André)<ref name="GRINSpecies">Template:Cite web</ref> (Southwestern United States and Baja California)

Relationship with humans

Native Hawaiians (who call them loulu or noulu) often plant the trees in their traditional homes.<ref name="Meilleur ">Template:Cite journal</ref> They often consume their seeds (known as hāwane or wāhane) raw,<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> use their trunk wood as building material and leaves as roof thatching in houses and temples.<ref name="Meilleur" />

See also

• Laysan fan palm

References

• Kew Palms Checklist: Pritchardia