Acrocomia crispa (Kunth) C.F.Baker ex Becc.

Cuban belly palm, Corojo Palm, Gastrococos crispa [W]

Acrocomia crispa (Cuban belly palm, Corojo Palm), a palm species which is endemic to Cuba. Formerly placed in its own genus, Gastrococos, recent work found that that genus was nested within Acrocomia. It is a tall, spiny palm with a trunk that is slender at the base, but swollen in the middle, giving it the name "Cuban belly palm" in English. It is closely related to the genus Acrocomia.

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VERNACULAR NAME[3]

GENUS [A]Acrocomia

SUB-FAMILY [N]Arecoideae

TRIBE [N]Cocoseae

SUB-TRIBE [N]Bactridinae

PUBLICATION [A]

Pomona Coll. J. Econ. Bot. 2: 364 (1912)

CONSERVATION STATUS [W]

CONSERVATION STATUS [W]

 BIOLOGY [C][3]

 Distribution [C][3]

Cuba

 USES [W]

 SYNONYMS [C]

Acrocomia armentalis (Morales) L.H.Bailey & E.Z.Bailey
Astrocaryum crispum (Kunth) M.Gómez
Cocos crispa Kunth
Gastrococos armentalis Morales
Gastrococos crispa (Kunth) H.E.Moore 

 CULTIVATION

Cold Hardiness Zone (USDA) 10a

GROWTH RATE

MINIMUM TEMPERATURE

exposure

MAX HEIGHT

Sunny, well drained position, but with plenty of water. Very slow growing when young, but speed up cafter. 

 BIBLIOGRAPHY & SOURCES

[3] Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
[3] Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne.
[3] Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192. 

[A] Palmweb - Palms of the World Online - http://www.palmweb.org

[C] WCSP 2013. World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/ Retrieved 2011 onwards

[N] The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

[W] Wikipedia: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrocomia_crispa

eMonocot: http://e-monocot.org/taxon/urn:kew.org:wcs:taxon:2577

The World Checklist of Monocotyledons: http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/home.do

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

IUCN Red List: http://discover.iucnredlist.org

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