Coccothrinax Ekmanii

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Coccothrinax ekmanii (gwenn) is a palm which is endemic to the island of Hispaniola. Like other members of the genus, C. ekmanii is a fan palm. Trees are single-stemmed, between 3 and 15 metres tall with stems 5 to 8 (occasionally 20) centimetres in diameter. The fruit is brownish, 5-6 millimetres in diameter. It grows on rocky hills or in dry scrub forest on limestone. Arecaceae or Palmae (also known by the name Palmaceae, which is considered taxonomically invalid, omically invalidor by the common name palm tree), the palm family, is a family of flowering plants, the only family in the monocot order Arecales