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Pelagodoxa henryana
Pelagodoxa henryana is a tall, rare palm from the Marquesas, growing in lowland wet forest and grown mostly in botanical collections. It is threatened in the wild and seldom cultivated, so care is based on its tropical wet-forest origin.
Pelagodoxa henryana is a species of palm tree. It is native to French Polynesia, where it survives on Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands. A population on Raivavae in the Tubuai Islands is presumed extinct. The species is threatened by habitat loss.
The plant was described by Odoardo Beccari in 1917, from seeds, notes, and photographs gathered on Fatu Hiva by Charles Henry in 1916, likely in the Taipivai Valley. The trees grow in disturbed lowland rain forest near the Teuakueenui waterfall. In 2012 a second population was discovered in the Hatihe'u valley. Both populations are from 140 to 300 metres (460 to 980 ft) elevation in lowland wet forest dominated by the trees Hibiscus tiliaceus, Inocarpus fagifer, and coconut (Cocos nucifera). Trees recorded in the 1920s at Unurau and Temahara on the island of Raivavae were gone by the 1980s. Both of the Fatu Hiva populations were discovered near old house sites, and the Raivavae populations were discovered at ritual marae sites, suggesting that these populations may have been established by humans.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
