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Butterfly Palm

Vonitra

Also called Butterfly Palms

Butterfly Palm
Photo: Scott Zona, CC BY 2.0
Family
Arecaceae (Palm family)

About

Vonitra is a valid genus of African palms, family Arecaceae, first described by Odoardo Beccari in 1906. Species are endemic to Madagascar and were previously placed in the genus Dypsis. The type species is Vonitra fibrosa.

Other Dypsis plants

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

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

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