Editing Coccothrinax moaensis

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[[File:Coccothrinax_moaensis.jpg|frame|Figure 1. ''C. moaensis'' in habitat, Quemado del Negro.]]
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''''Coccothrinax moaensis'' (Borhidi & O.Mu&#241;iz)
O.Mu&#241;iz

===Synonymy:===
''Coccothrinax yuraguana'' subsp. moaensis Borhidi & O. Mu&#241;iz,
Acta Bot. Acad. Sci. Hung. 17: 1 (1971 publ. 1972).

===General:===
This small palm was described in 1971 by the Hungarian and Cuban botanists
A. Borhidi and O. Mu&#241;iz and it was one of the first of many species
described by these men in Eastern Cuba.
It was originally considered a subspecies of
''Coccothrinax yuraguana'' but later, in 1981 Mu&#241;iz,
decided to give it specific rank and called it ''C. moaensis''.

===Distribution & Habitat:===
''Coccothrinax moaensis'' is native to Cuba, where it occurs only in
the region of Moa in S.E. Cuba. "The land of Moa" as it is called by some
naturalists, is a very peculiar area from a botanical point of view.
Its soils are derived from very old serpentine rocks, and they are
"extreme" in that they are naturally loaded with lots of metals and
unusual elements. This palm is mainly found at lower elevations and
even not too far from the coastline. Its distribution extends south
to Maguana (Prov. of Guant&#225;namo) and also inland,
while the species clearly follows the patches of serpentine soils.
The area is rainy (1.500-2.200 mm/year) and hot
(27-28&#176;C as average annual temperature).
According to the different localities, ''Coccothrinax moaensis'' can be
found growing together with other endemic palms, such as
''Bactris cubensis'', ''Thrinax rivularis'', ''Copernicia rigida''
and others.
 
===Description:===
''Coccothrinax moaensis'' is a solitary, medium sized Coccothrinax,
spineless in all its parts. The especially thick leaves are orbicular
and the palman (the undivided part of a palmate leaf between the petiole
and segments of the blade, of particular pertinence to leaves of fan palms)
is characteristic in being small, so the deeply divided
segments form an eye-catching pinwheel. The fibre sheaths are often swollen
in the middle, giving the trunk a pleasant "bumpy" appearance.
Inflorescences and infructescences are short, curved and they
eventually hang with fleshy purple fruits.

===Culture:===
Little is known on its culture and few plants are surely cultivated in
Cuba, Florida and the Canary Islands. It is not a difficult plant and
I can mention no specific requirements, but it is one of the slow ones and
it will need six or more years in the nursery before getting passed to
the ground. Even though the species if from an area with little or no dry
spells, the plants in cultivation performed well during a few droughts.
It is not likely to be cold resistant and the plants grown in the
Canary Islands slow down considerably in the non-hot months.
As for most Coccothrinax I recommend to use pots larger than one may think
and also to use more bottom drainage than one may think.

===Note:===
The pictures here are from 2 separate populations, 50km apart;
Quemado del Negro and Maguana.
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[[File:Coccothrinax_moaensis02.jpg|frame|Figure 2. ''C. moaensis'' in habitat, Maguana.]]
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[[File:Coccothrinax_moaensis03.jpg|frame|Figure 3. ''C. moaensis'' in habitat, Quemado del Negro.]]
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[[File:Coccothrinax_moaensis04.jpg|frame|Figure 4. ''C. moaensis'' leaf detail, Quemado del Negro.]]
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[[File:Coccothrinax_moaensis05.jpg|frame|Figure 5. ''C. moaensis'' trunk detail, Maguana.]]
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===Contributed by: ===
Carlo Morici (Text and Figure 1,2,3,4&5)<br/>


===External Links:===
[https://powo.science.kew.org/results?q=Coccothrinax%20moaensis Kew], 
[https://www.palmweb.org//?q=cdm_dataportal/taxon/604c5b39-1037-4db2-b25e-71f665369919 PalmWeb],
[https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=Coccothrinax+moaensis JSTOR],
[https://www.trebrown.com/plant_info.php?species=Coccothrinax+moaensis Trebrown]
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