Oncocalamus

Oncocalamus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Arecales
Family:	Arecaceae
Subfamily:	Calamoideae
Tribe:	Lepidocaryeae
Genus:	Oncocalamus; (G. Mann & H. Wendl.)
Species
	Oncocalamus djodu; Oncocalamus macrospathus; Oncocalamus mannii; Oncocalamus tuleyi; Oncocalamus wrightianus;

Oncocalamus is a monoecious genus of flowering plants in the palm family found in western Africa. The genus is the lone member of the Oncocalaminae; once placed with the vegetatively similar Eremospatha and Laccosperma in the Ancistrophyllinae, it is now isolated based on their unusual flowers and arrangement. Such a placement argues for a long and complex evolutionary process in the Calamoideae with heavy extinction rates.^[2] The Greek genus name combines "horn" and "capsule".^[3]

^ G. Mann & H.A. Wendland ex J.D. Hooker in Bentham & J.D. Hooker, Genera Plantarum 3:881, 936. 1883. Type:O. manni
^ Uhl, Natalie W. and Dransfield, John (1987) Genera Palmarum - A classification of palms based on the work of Harold E. Moore. Lawrence, Kansas: Allen Press. ISBN 0-935868-30-5 / ISBN 978-0-935868-30-2
^ Riffle, Robert L. and Craft, Paul (2003) An Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms. Portland: Timber Press. ISBN 0-88192-558-6 / ISBN 978-0-88192-558-6

[miffle-1] G. Mann & H.A. Wendland ex J.D. Hooker in Bentham & J.D. Hooker, Genera Plantarum 3:881, 936. 1883. Type:O. manni

[uhl-2] Uhl, Natalie W. and Dransfield, John (1987) Genera Palmarum - A classification of palms based on the work of Harold E. Moore. Lawrence, Kansas: Allen Press. ISBN 0-935868-30-5 / ISBN 978-0-935868-30-2

[riffle-3] Riffle, Robert L. and Craft, Paul (2003) An Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms. Portland: Timber Press. ISBN 0-88192-558-6 / ISBN 978-0-88192-558-6

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