Biota of the British Virgin Islands - Fauna of the British Virgin Islands, Flora of the British Virgin Islands, Sabal Causiarum (Paperback)

Chapters: Fauna of the British Virgin Islands, Flora of the British Virgin Islands, Sabal Causiarum, Phlebodium Aureum, List of Mammals of the British Virgin Islands, Cordia Rupicola, Whistling Coqui, Opuntia Repens, Sideroxylon Foetidissimum, Acacia Anegadensis, Metastelma Anegadense. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Inodes causiarum O.F.CookInodes glauca DammerSabal haitensis Becc. ex MartelliSabal questeliana L.H.Bailey Sabal causiarum, commonly known as the Puerto Rican hat palm, is a species of palm which is native to Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands. As its common and scientific names suggest, its leaves are used in the manufacture of hats. Sabal causiarum at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, Florida, United StatesSabal causiarum is a fan palm with solitary, very stout stems, which grows up to 10 metres (33 ft) tall and 3570 centimetres (1428 in) in diameter. Plants have 2030 leaves, each with 60120 leaflets. The inflorescences, which are branched, arching or pendulous, and longer than the leaves, bear globose, black fruit. The fruit are 0.71.1 centimetres (0.30.4 in) in diameter; fruit size and shape are the main characteristics by which this species differs from Sabal domingensis. Sabal is placed in the subfamily Coryphoideae and the tribe Sabaleae. As of 2008, there appear to be no molecular phylogenetic studies of Sabal and the relationship between S. causiarum and the rest of the genus is uncertain. The species was first described by American botanist Orator F. Cook as Inodes causiarum in 1901. The specific epithet, causiarum means "of hats"; the Latin word referred to "a wide-brimmed Macedonian hat." Cook erected the genus Inodes to incorporate members of the genus Sabal with upright trunks and leaves w...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2304971