Geonoma

taxobox
name = "Geonoma"
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Monocots
unranked_ordo = Commelinids
ordo = Arecales
familia = Arecaceae
subfamilia = Arecoideae
tribus = Geonomeae
genus = "Geonoma"
genus_authority = Willd.
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = 64, see text
synonyms = "Gynestum" Poit.
"Kalbreyera" Burret
"Roebelia" Engel
"Taenianthera" Burret
"Vouay" Aubl.
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"Geonoma" is a genus of small to medium-sized palms native to the forest understorey of tropical Central and South America.

This palm genus is one of the largest in the Neotropics [Henderson "et al." (1995)] . Its 64 species are distributed from Mexico and Haiti in the north to Paraguay in the south; two are found in the insular Caribbean [Morici (2004)] .

pecies [Govaerts "et al." (2008)]

* "Geonoma appuniana" Spruce
* "Geonoma arundinacea" Mart.
* "Geonoma aspidiifolia" Spruce
* "Geonoma atrovirens" Borchs. & Balslev
* "Geonoma baculifera" (Poit.) Kunth
* "Geonoma brenesii" Grayum
* "Geonoma brevispatha" Barb.Rodr.
* "Geonoma brongniartii" Mart.
* "Geonoma camana" Trail
* "Geonoma chlamydostachys" Galeano-Garcés
* "Geonoma chococola" Wess.Boer
* "Geonoma concinna" Burret
* "Geonoma congesta" H.Wendl. ex Spruce
* "Geonoma cuneata" H.Wendl. ex Spruce
* "Geonoma densa" Linden & H.Wendl.
* "Geonoma deversa" (Poit.) Kunth
* "Geonoma divisa" H.E.Moore
* "Geonoma epetiolata"Verify source|date=April 2008 H.E.Moore
* "Geonoma ferruginea" H.Wendl. ex Spruce
* "Geonoma gamiova" Barb.Rodr.
* "Geonoma gastoniana" Glaz. ex Drude
* "Geonoma hoffmanniana" H.Wendl. ex Spruce
* "Geonoma hugonis" Grayum & Nevers
* "Geonoma interrupta" (Ruiz & Pav.) Mart.
* "Geonoma irena" Brochs.
* "Geonoma jussieuana" Mart. in A.D.d'Orbigny
* "Geonoma laxiflora" Mart.
* "Geonoma leptospadix" Trail
* "Geonoma linearis" Burret
* "Geonoma longipedunculata" Burret
* "Geonoma longivaginata" H.Wendl. ex Spruce
* "Geonoma macrostachys" Mart.
* "Geonoma maxima" (Poit.) Mart.
* "Geonoma monospatha" de Nevers
* "Geonoma mooreana" de Nevers & Grayum
* "Geonoma myriantha" Dammer
* "Geonoma oldemanii" Granv.
* "Geonoma oligoclona" Trail
* "Geonoma orbignyana" Mart. in A.D.d'Orbigny
* "Geonoma paradoxa" Burret
* "Geonoma paraguanensis" H.Karst.
* "Geonoma pauciflora" Mart.
* "Geonoma poeppigiana" Mart. in A.D.d'Orbigny
* "Geonoma pohliana" Mart.
* "Geonoma polyandra" Skov
* "Geonoma polyneura" Burret
* "Geonoma rubescens" H.Wendl. ex Drude
* "Geonoma santanderensis" Galeano & R.Bernal
* "Geonoma schottiana" Mart.
* "Geonoma scoparia" Grayum & Nevers
* "Geonoma seleri" Burret
* "Geonoma simplicifrons" Willd.
* "Geonoma spinescens" H.Wendl.
* "Geonoma stricta" (Poit.) Kunth
** "Geonoma stricta" var. "stricta" (Poit.) Kunth
* "Geonoma supracostata" Svenning
* "Geonoma talamancana" Grayum
* "Geonoma tenuissima" H.E.Moore
* "Geonoma triandra" (Burret) Wess.Boer
* "Geonoma triglochin" Burret
* "Geonoma trigona" (Ruiz & Pav.) A.H.Gentry
* "Geonoma umbraculiformis" Wess.Boer
* "Geonoma undata" Klotzsch
* "Geonoma weberbaueri" Dammer ex Burret
* "Geonoma wilsonii" Galeano & R.Bernal

Species now placed elsewhere include "Calyptronoma occidentalis" (= "Geonoma swartzii") and "Calyptronoma plumeriana" (= "Geonoma dulcis, G. intermedia, plumeriana").

References

* (2008): [http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/wcsp/namedetail.do?accepted_id=89268&repSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=89268&status=true "Geonoma"] . "In:" World Checklist of Arecaceae. Retrieved 2008-APR-01.
* (1995): "Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas". Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. ISBN 0-691-08537-4 [http://books.google.com/books?id=zZ2flHoGLtcC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0 HTML preview] at Google Books
* (2004): "Palmeras e Islas: La Insularidad en una de las Familias más Diversas del Reino Vegetal". "In:" aut|Fernández-Palacios, J.M. & Morici, C.Verify source|date=April 2008 : "Ecología Insular/Island Ecology": 81-122. Asociatión Española de Ecología Terestre (AEET)-Cabildo Insular de La Palma [in Spanish] . [http://webpages.ull.es/users/jmferpal/Palmeras%20e%20Islas%20Libro%20Cap.%2003.pdf PDF fulltext]