Physokentia is a genus of flowering plant in the palm family, native to certain islands of the western Pacific.
Description This genus contains the following species:Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.Pintaud, J.-C. & Baker, W.J. (2008). A revision of the palm genera (Arecaceae) of New Caledonia. Kew Bulletin 63: 61-73. The relationships between Physokentia and some other genera of the tribe Basseliniinae particularly the New Caledonia endemic Burretiokentia and Cyphophoenix are not clear.Baker, W. J., M. V. Norup, J. J. Clarkson, T. L. P. Couvreur, J. L. Dowe, C. E. Lewis, J. C. Pintaud, V. Savolainen, T. Wilmot, and M. W. Chase. (2011). Phylogenetic Relationships among Arecoid Palms (Arecaceae: Arecoideae). Annals of Botany 108 (8): 1417–32.
List of species Physokentia avia H.E.Moore - Bismarck Archipelago Physokentia dennisii H.E.Moore - Solomon Islands Physokentia insolita H.E.Moore - Solomon Islands Physokentia petiolata (Burret) D.Fuller - Fiji Physokentia tete (Becc.) Becc. - Vanuatu Physokentia thurstonii (Becc.) Becc. - Vanuatu Physokentia whitmorei H.E.Moore - Solomon Islands
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