Taxon:
Chamaerops humilis L.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:1187. 1753
Verified:
03/16/2010
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009 Note:
- based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
- http://www.skud.info
- Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. Flora of Libya. 1976-
- Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. 1965-1988
- Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008
- Facciola, S. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. 1990 Note: Kampong Publications
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Chamaerops+humilis&quantity=1
- Govaerts, R. & J. Dransfield. World checklist of palms. 2005 http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/home.do
- Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
- Krüssmann, G. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). 1984
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
- Moore, H. E., Jr. 1963. An annotated checklist of cultivated palms. Principes 7:136,174.
- Pederson, H. B. 1996. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
- Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
- Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
- Reitz, R., ed. Flora ilustrada catarinense. 1965- Note: cultivated
- St. John, H. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands. 1973
- Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. 1964-1980
Common names
English
dwarf fan palm – European fan palm – Mediterranean fan-fern – French
palmier nain – German
europäische Zwergpalme – Zwergpalme – Portuguese
palmeira-anã – palmeira-vassoureira – Spanish
palmera enana – palmito – Swedish
dvärgpalm –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Africa | Northern Africa | Algeria | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Northern Africa | Libya | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Northern Africa | Morocco | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Northern Africa | Tunisia | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Italy | | incl. Sardinia, Sicily |
1 | Native | Europe | Southwestern Europe | France | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southwestern Europe | Portugal | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southwestern Europe | Spain | | incl. Baleares |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | also cult. |
Native
Africa
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NORTHERN AFRICA:
Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
Europe
-
SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE:
Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily)
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SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE:
Spain (incl. Baleares), France, Portugal
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Economic Uses
Environmental
Materials
fiber (fide H. B. Pedersen, pers. comm. 1996) –