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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Syagrus
|accepted_authority=Martius
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Palm. Fam.
|place=18. 1824
|year=1824
}}
|common_names=Queen palm
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Arecaceae;Arecaceae subfam. Arecoideae;Arecaceae tribe Cocoeae;Arecaceae (tribe Cocoeae) subtribe Butiinae;Syagrus
|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>[[Syagrus]]</div></div>
|etymology=classical name, derivation unknown, but a name used by Pliny for a kind of palm
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=page 121
|treatment_page=page 120
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>solitary, erect, robust, unarmed, bearing conspicuous nodal rings. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole unarmed; sheath not forming crownshaft; blade pinnate, unarmed; plication reduplicate; segments regularly arranged in multiple planes, apices acute to 2-cleft. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary within crown of leaves, paniculate, 1 order of branching, ascending, becoming pendulous in fruit; prophyll short; peduncular bract woody, beaked, splitting abaxially, becoming boat-shaped. <b>Flowers</b> unisexual, sessile, borne in triads of 1 pistillate flower flanked by 2 staminate, staminate flowers borne singly along distal portions of rachillae. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: sepals 3, connate; petals 3, free, valvate, leathery; stamens 6, free; anthers linear; pistillode with 3 minute lobes. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers borne basally on rachillae, massive; sepals 3, imbricate, free; petals 3, imbricate, free; staminode a low annular ring at base of pistil; pistil 1, large; ovules 1; style indistinct; stigmas 3. <b>Fruits</b> drupes, ovoid, less than 4 cm diam.; exocarp orange, thin, smooth; mesocarp fleshy, oily; endocarp thick, bony, irregularly folded into seed, with 3 basal germination pores. <b>Seeds</b> irregular with hollow cavity; endosperm homogeneous; embryo basal; eophyll undivided, lanceolate.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;West Indies (Lesser Antilles);South America.
|discussion=<p>Species 32 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
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name=Syagrus
|authority=Martius
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Arecaceae
|distribution=North America;West Indies (Lesser Antilles);South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Palm. Fam.
|publication year=1824
|special status=
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|subfamily=Arecaceae subfam. Arecoideae
|tribe=Arecaceae tribe Cocoeae
|subtribe=Arecaceae (tribe Cocoeae) subtribe Butiinae
|genus=Syagrus
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