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Chrysalidocarpus pembanus, also known as mpapindi or mpopo wa mwitu, is a species of plant in the family Arecaceae that is endemic to Pemba Island in Tanzania.
This is the sole Chrysalidocarpus species native outside Madagascar and the Comoro Islands.
C. pembanus is known only from two locations on Pemba Island, Tanzania, where it grows in moist evergreen lowland and littoral forests up to 50 m (160 ft) above sea level.
Chrysalidocarpus baronii · Chrysalidocarpus canescens · Chrysalidocarpus lanceolatus · Chrysalidocarpus madagascariensis · Chrysalidocarpus mananjarensis · Chrysalidocarpus onilahensis · Chrysalidocarpus piluliferus · Butterfly Palm · Vonitra antanambensis · Chrysalidocarpus arenarum · Dypsis beentjei · Talanoka
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chrysalidocarpus pembanus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
