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Phoenix atlantica, the Glossary

Phoenix atlantica (common name Cape Verde Island date palm, local name: tamareira) is an endangered species in the palm family Arecaceae, in the genus Phoenix.^[1]

10 relations: Arecaceae, Auguste Chevalier, Cape Verde, Date palm, Drupe, Endemism, Fruit, Phoenix (plant), Phoenix canariensis, Seed.
Endemic flora of Cape Verde
Phoenix (plant)

Arecaceae

The Arecaceae is a family of perennial, flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales.

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Auguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier (June 1873, in Domfront – June 1956, in Paris) was a French botanist, taxonomist, and explorer of tropical Africa, especially of French colonial empire in Africa that included Côte d'Ivoire.

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Cape Verde

Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelago and island country of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about.

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Date palm

Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as the date palm, is a flowering-plant species in the palm family, Arecaceae, cultivated for its edible sweet fruit called dates. Phoenix atlantica and date palm are Drought-tolerant trees and Phoenix (plant).

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Drupe

In botany, a drupe (or stone fruit) is an indehiscent type of fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin, and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the pip (UK), pit (US), stone, or pyrena) of hardened endocarp with a seed (kernel) inside.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering (see Fruit anatomy).

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Phoenix (plant)

Phoenix is a genus of 14 species of palms, native to an area starting from the Canary Islands in the west, across northern and central Africa, to the extreme southeast of Europe (Crete), and continuing throughout southern Asia, from Anatolia east to southern China and Malaysia.

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Phoenix canariensis

Phoenix canariensis, the Canary Island date palm or pineapple palm, is a species of flowering plant in the palm family Arecaceae, native to the Canary Islands off the coast of Northwestern Africa. Phoenix atlantica and Phoenix canariensis are Drought-tolerant trees and Phoenix (plant).

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