Upaká palm

Description

Reinhardtia simplex is a species of Liliopsida first described by Hermann Wendland, and given its simplified Asian name by Karl Ewald Maximilian Burret. Reinhardtia simplex belongs to the genus Reinhardtia, and the family Arecaceae. Reinhardtia is a genus in the palm family native to the northern Neotropics. It is a primarily Central American genus with five species distributed between southern Mexico and the extreme north of Colombia, and one isolated species, Reinhardtia paiewonskiana in the southwest of the Dominican Republic. Reinhardtia elegans Liebm. - Oaxaca, Chiapas, Honduras Reinhardtia gracilis (H.Wendl.) Burret - Central America, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Veracruz, Colombia Reinhardtia koschnyana (H.Wendl. & Dammer) Burret - Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia Reinhardtia latisecta (H.Wendl.) Burret - Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica Reinhardtia paiewonskiana Read, Zanoni & M.M.Mejía - Dominican Republic Reinhardtia simplex (H.Wendl.) Burret - Chiapas, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia