View source for Cocos ← Cocos You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Cocos |accepted_authority=Linnaeus |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Sp. Pl. |place=2: 1188. 1753; Gen. Pl. ed. 5; 495, 1754 |year=1754 }} |common_names=Coconut palm palm;cocotier |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Arecaceae;Arecaceae subfam. Arecoideae;Arecaceae tribe Cocoeae;Arecaceae (tribe Cocoeae) subtribe Butiinae;Cocos |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Arecaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Arecaceae subfam. Arecoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Arecaceae tribe Cocoeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Arecaceae (tribe Cocoeae) subtribe Butiinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cocos]]</div></div> |etymology=derivation of name uncertain |volume=Volume 22 |mention_page= |treatment_page=page 119 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>solitary, erect or ascending, often leaning, robust, unarmed, trunks with conspicuous nodal rings. <b>Leaves</b>: sheath coarse, cloth-like, not forming crownshaft; petiole unarmed; petiole base entire; blade pinnate, unarmed; plication reduplicate; segments regularly arranged, apices acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary within crown of leaves, paniculate, with 1 or 2 orders of branching, stiffly ascending; prophyll short; peduncular bract woody, beaked, splitting abaxially, becoming boat-shaped; rachillae glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> unisexual, sessile, in triads of 1 pistillate flower flanked by 2 staminate flowers, staminate flowers borne singly along distal portions of rachillae. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: sepals 3, imbricate, free; petals 3, valvate; stamens 6, free; anthers sagittate; pistillode with 3 slender lobes. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers borne basally on rachillae, massive; sepals 3, imbricate, free, more or less ± reniform; petals 3, imbricate, free, large, imbricate; staminode a thin ring at base of pistil; pistils 1, large; ovules 3, but usually only 1 ovule fertile; styles indistinct; stigmas 3. <b>Fruits</b> drupes, greater than 10 cm diam., strongly to obscurely 3-angled, dry; exocarp brown, thin, smooth; mesocarp very fibrous, dry; endocarp thick, bony, with 3 basal germination pores. <b>Seeds</b> very large, hollow and fluid-filled; endosperm lining cavity of seed, homogeneous, oily; embryo basal; eophyll 2-cleft, segments lanceolate. <b>x</b>n = 16.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Pantropical. |discussion=<p>Originally from Melanesia (H. C. Harries 1978, 1992), the coconut is now almost universally cultivated in tropical and subtropical areas of the world. The earliest record of its introduction into Florida is from the early nineteenth century (D. F. Austin 1978b). The plant persists after cultivation, and fruits with germinating seeds may be found in abandoned or disturbed sites along coastal southern Florida. The species is included here because it regenerates in the managed and disturbed strand vegetation in southern Florida.</p><!-- --><p>Species 1.</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=austin1978b |text=Austin, D. F. 1978b. The coconut in Florida. Principes 22: 83--87. }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=harries1978a |text=Harries, H. C. 1978. The evolution, dissemination, and classification of Cocos nucifera L. Bot. Rev. (Lancaster) 44: 265--320. }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=harries1992a |text=Harries, H. C. 1992. Biogeography of the coconut Cocos nucifera L. Principes 36: 155--162. }} }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Cocos |authority=Linnaeus |rank=genus |parent rank=subtribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Arecaceae |distribution=Pantropical. |reference=austin1978b;harries1978a;harries1992a |publication title=Sp. Pl. |publication year=1754 |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V22/V22_478.xml |subfamily=Arecaceae subfam. Arecoideae |tribe=Arecaceae tribe Cocoeae |subtribe=Arecaceae (tribe Cocoeae) subtribe Butiinae |genus=Cocos }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Arecaceae (tribe Cocoeae) subtribe Butiinae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Arecaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Template:Treatment/Reference (view source) Return to Cocos.