The Institute for Regional Conservation

Plants of South Florida · Plants by Conservation Area · Plants by County · Plants by Habitat
Quick Search · Advanced Search

Please scroll to the bottom for more images.

Acoelorraphe wrightii (Griseb. & H. Wendl.) H. Wendl. ex Becc.
Paurotis palm, Everglades palm

Copyright by: Susan Trammell

Family: Arecaceae

Group: Monocot

Substrate: Terrestrial

Habit: Tree

Perennation: Perennial

Native Range: South Florida, the Bahamas, Cuba, Mexico, Central America and the Colombian Caribbean Islands.

Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida

State of Florida Status: Threatened

IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status: Rare

SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence: Present

SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status: Native

SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status: Cultivated

Comments: Visit our Natives For Your Neighborhood website for more information and images. For a digitized image of Elbert Little's Florida range map, visit the Exploring Florida website.

Other data on Acoelorraphe wrightii available from :

	Occurrence	Native Status
Acoelorraphe wrightii has been found in the following 13 conservation areas :
Big Cypress National Preserve	Present	Native
Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park	Presumed Extirpated	Not Native, Cultivated Only
Biscayne National Park	Present	Not Native, Cultivated Only
Deering Estate at Cutler	Present	Not Native, Cultivated Only
Enchanted Forest Park	Present	Not Native, Cultivated Only
Estero Bay Preserve State Park	Present	Not Native, Cultivated Only
Everglades National Park	Present	Native
Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park	Present	Native
Greynolds Park	Present	Not Native, Cultivated Only
Hugh Taylor Birch State Park	Present	Not Native, Cultivated Only
Long Key Natural Area & Nature Center	Present	Not Native, Cultivated Only
Matheson Hammock Park	Present	Not Native, Cultivated Only
Red Reef Park, including Gumbo Limbo Nature Center	Present	Not Native, Cultivated Only