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Butterfly Palm

Chrysalidocarpus

Also called Butterfly Palms

Butterfly Palm
Photo: Ping an Chang, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Arecaceae (Palm family)

About

Chrysalidocarpus is a valid genus of African palms, family Arecaceae, first described by Hermann Wendland in 1878. The native range of species in this genus includes the Comoros, Madagascar and Pemba Islands, but some have been naturalised elsewhere as ornamental plants. Most species were previously placed in the genus Dypsis, including the type species Chrysalidocarpus lutescens.

Other Dypsis plants

Chrysalidocarpus baronii · Chrysalidocarpus canescens · Chrysalidocarpus lanceolatus · Chrysalidocarpus madagascariensis · Chrysalidocarpus mananjarensis · Chrysalidocarpus onilahensis · Chrysalidocarpus pembanus · Chrysalidocarpus piluliferus · Vonitra antanambensis · Chrysalidocarpus arenarum · Dypsis beentjei · Talanoka

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chrysalidocarpus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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