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Copernicia fallaensis León

Arecaceae · Cuba

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Summary

Copernicia fallaensis is a species of flowering plant in the palm family Arecaceae. It is endemic to the region around Falla, Cuba. It is among the ten largest palm species, being up to 75 cm (30 in) or even 90 cm (35 in) DBH (diameter at breast height) and up to 20 m (66 ft) in height.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Copernicia fallaensis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Copernicia

Copernicia is a genus of palms native to South America and the Greater Antilles. Of the known species and nothospecies (hybrids), 22 of the 27 are endemic to Cuba. They are fan palms, with the leaves with a bare petiole terminating in a rounded fan of numerous leaflets. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Copernicia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 3 of the 5 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeCuba · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker22.317, -79.233 · in the densest population, 5 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 5 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 4 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 3 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 3 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 5 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Scott Zona, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (5).

Other Copernicia 11 in the reference

Copernicia alba Copernicia alba Caranday palm Photo: CC0, author not statedCopernicia baileyana Copernicia baileyana Bailey palm Photo: CC BY, Mario GuzmánCopernicia berteroana Copernicia berteroana Hispaniolan Silver Palm Photo: CC BY, Mario GuzmánCopernicia ekmanii Copernicia ekmanii Ekman's Silver Palm Photo: CC BY, Brian Oakes Haiti Hunter Copernicia gigas Cuban palm Copernicia hospita Copernicia hospita Cubam palm Photo: CC BY-SA, User:CarstorCopernicia macroglossa Copernicia macroglossa Arecaceae Photo: CC BY, avocatCopernicia prunifera Copernicia prunifera Carnauba wax palm Photo: CC BY, Gabriel M. RolimCopernicia rigida Copernicia rigida Arecaceae Photo: CC BY, J. L. Gómez-HechavarríaCopernicia tectorum Copernicia tectorum Arecaceae Photo: CC BY, portioidCopernicia yarey Copernicia yarey Arecaceae Photo: CC BY, amantedarmanin

Names & registers

Also known as Copernicia fallaense. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Arecaceae
Described by
León
Native to
Cuba
Wild records
5 in range · 4 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 3 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (3 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Copernicia fallaensis León (the item's: IPNI 666253-1, POWO 666252-1)
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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