IUCN SSC
Raphia sudanica

50 Flagship Palms for Conservation

The palms on this list were selected by members of the Palm Specialist Group to raise public awareness of the plight of palms in the wild and the urgent need for palm conservation. Some of the palms on this list are currently the subjects of successful on-going conservation efforts; these successes demonstrate that palm conservation is a realistic and obtainable goal. The remaining palms on this list are in immediate need of conservation intervention.

South & Central America

  1. Aiphanes grandis
  2. Asterogyne yaracuyense
  3. Astrocaryum minus
  4. Ceroxylon sasaimae
  5. Chamaedorea alternans
  6. Chamaedorea tuerckheimii
  7. Cryosophila williamsii
  8. Geonoma epetiolata
  9. Geonoma tenuissima

North America & the West Indies

  1. Attalea crassispatha
  2. Brahea edulis
  3. Coccothrinax crinita ssp. crinita
  4. Coccothrinax borhidiana
  5. Copernicia fallaensis

Africa, Madagascar & Indian Ocean Islands

  1. Acanthophoenix rubra
  2. Beccariophoenix madagascariensis
  3. Dypsis ambositrae
  4. Dypsis eriostachys
  5. Dypsis sanctaemariae
  6. Dypsis trapezoidea
  7. Hyophorbe amaricaulis
  8. Lemurophoenix halleuxii
  9. Medemia argun
  10. Ravenea louvelii
  11. Ravenea moorei
  12. Tectiphiala ferox
  13. Voanioala gerardii

South Asia and India

  1. Bentinckia nicobarica
  2. Corypha taliera
  3. Loxococcus rupicola

Southeast Asia, Indo-Malasia & New Guinea

  1. Areca brachypoda
  2. Calamus manan
  3. Daemonorops unijuga
  4. Hydriastele flabellata
  5. Johanesteijsmannia lanceolata
  6. Pinanga acaulis

Pacific Islands

  1. Balaka macrocarpa
  2. Carpoxylon macrospermum
  3. Lavoixia macrocarpa
  4. Lepidorrachis mooreana
  5. Neoveitchia brunea
  6. Oncosperma gracilipes
  7. Pelagodoxa henryana
  8. Ponapea palauensis
  9. Pritchardia aylmer-robinsonii
  10. Pritchardia munroi
  11. Pritchardia viscosa
  12. Pritchardiopsis jeanneneyi
  13. Solfia samoensis

Australia

  1. Livistona lanuginosa