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Encyclopedia > Nikau Palm
Rhopalostylis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
Genus: Rhopalostylis
Species

R. baueri
R. cheesemanii
R. sapida
Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Green algae Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Orders Base Monocots: Acorus Alismatales Asparagales Dioscoreales Liliales Pandanales Family Petrosaviaceae Commelinids: Arecales Commelinales Poales Zingiberales Family Dasypogonaceae Monocotyledons or monocots are a group of flowering plants usually ranked as a class and once called the Monocotyledoneae. ... Family Arecaceae Arecales is the botanical order which includes only the palm family, Arecaceae. ... Genera Many; see list of Arecaceae genera Arecaceae (also known as Palmae or Palmaceae), the Palm Family, is a family of flowering plants, belonging to the monocot order, Arecales. ...

Rhopalostylis is a genus of palms native to the South Pacific. All three palms are smooth-trunked, with regular ringed scars from fallen leaves. The leaves are 3-5 meters in length, and the leaf bases encircle the trunk. See genus (mathematics) for the use of the term in mathematics. ... Genera Many; see list of Arecaceae genera Arecaceae (also known as Palmae or Palmaceae), the Palm Family, is a family of flowering plants, belonging to the monocot order, Arecales. ... South Pacific is a musical play by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, which opened on Broadway on April 7, 1949. ...


Rhopalostylis has the southernmost range of any palm genus. R. sapida, known as the Nikau Palm, is New Zealand's only native palm species, and is found in lowland forests on the North Island and on the Chatham Islands. R. cheesemanii is endemic to the Kermadec Islands northeast of New Zealand. R. baueri is endemic to Norfolk Island. The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, the other being the South Island. ... The Chatham Islands from space. ... This article is about the ecological meaning of endemic. See also endemic (epidemiology). ... The Kermadec Islands form an island arc in the Pacific Ocean. ...


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