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Pritchardia remota; photograph David Eickhoff from Pearl City, Hawaii, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BYDavid Eickhoff from Pearl City, Hawaii, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Pritchardia remota (Kuntze) Becc.

Nihoa Fan Palm; Nihoa Palm; Nihoa fan palm / Nihoa palm / Nihoa pritchardia; Nihoa pritchardia

Arecaceae · Hawaii

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Summary

Pritchardia remota, the Nīhoa pritchardia, Nīhoa fan palm, or Loulu, is a species of palm endemic on the island of Nīhoa in the state of Hawaii, and later transplanted to the island of Laysan. It is a smaller tree than most other species of Pritchardia, typically reaching only 4–5 metres (13–16 ft) tall and with a trunk diameter of 15 centimetres (5.9 in). It is the only type of tree on the island and used to be abundant. In 1885 a wildfire ravaged the island, destroying most of the palms. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Pritchardia remota", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Pritchardia

The genus Pritchardia consists of between 24 and 40 species of fan palms found on tropical Pacific Ocean islands in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tuamotus, and most diversely in Hawaii. The generic name honors William Thomas Pritchard (1829–1907), a British consul at Fiji.

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 7 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 7 of the 7 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.
NativeHawaii · 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 marker21.837, -159.417 · in the densest population, 7 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 7 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 3 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 13 km away. 3 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 7 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 inside the densest 2° block of the 7 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: David Eickhoff from Pearl City, Hawaii, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (6).

Other Pritchardia 24 in the reference

Pritchardia arecina Pritchardia arecina Maui pritchardia Photo: CC BY, Forest & Kim StarrPritchardia bakeri Pritchardia bakeri Arecaceae Photo: CC BY, Kevin FaccendaPritchardia beccariana Pritchardia beccariana Kilauea pritchardia Photo: CC BY, Kevin Faccenda Pritchardia flynnii Flynn's Loulu Pritchardia forbesiana Pritchardia forbesiana Mt. Eke pritchardia Photo: CC BY, Forest and Kim StarrPritchardia glabrata Pritchardia glabrata Lana'i Pritchardia Photo: CC BY, Forest & Kim Starr Pritchardia gordonii Arecaceae Pritchardia hardyi Pritchardia hardyi Hardy's Loulu Photo: CC BY, Drew AveryPritchardia hillebrandii Pritchardia hillebrandii Hillebrand's Loulu Photo: Public domain, StickpenPritchardia kaalae Pritchardia kaalae Waianae Range pritchardia Photo: CC0, author not statedPritchardia lanigera Pritchardia lanigera Lo'ulu Photo: CC BY, David Eickhoff from Pearl City, Hawaii…Pritchardia lowreyana Pritchardia lowreyana Lowrey's loulu Photo: CC BY, David Eickhoff from Pearl City, Hawaii… all 25 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Eupritchardia remota; Pritchardia aylmer-robinsonii; Pritchardia remota subsp. aylmer-robinsonii; Pritchardia remota subsp. remota; Styloma remota and 1 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Arecaceae
Described by
(Kuntze) Becc.
Native to
Hawaii
Wild records
7 in range · 3 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 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
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
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-227 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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