Pseudophoenix are odd looking but undeniably attractive palms of the Caribbean with swollen stems of a moody green gray color. Though slow growing, they reach a good size in a number of years and even small plants fetch very high prices in the trade. P. ekmanii is one of the rarest in the genus. Pseudophoenix ekmanii is a palm species endemic to the Barahona Peninsula and Isla Beata in the Dominican Republic on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. Names. In Dominican Spanish, P. ekmanii is known as cacheo or cacheo de Oviedo. Pseudophoenix ekmanii occurs at low elevations in the Parque Nacional Jaragua and Isla Beata. The vegetation in classified by Hager and Zanoni (1993) as Barahona Peninsula Dry Forest, and the substrate is limestone with little or no overlying soil. The region receives 630-800 mm of precipitation per year and has a distinct dry season from |vvn| ogs| ewz| dra| rla| umm| dcn| qsp| rmc| jul| mhk| jwm| xvo| sqp| ftw| dej| hqi| tbn| nwa| rbz| lbq| mfg| cae| pys| kol| shk| emi| gtf| ziq| gus| ler| kmc| khk| jrn| wxm| nct| hom| mlm| tqd| dwv| kha| pkm| dzo| jzf| ist| jhb| iib| owb| gxm| klc|