List of palms native to the Caribbean

[1] The palm flora of Trinidad and Tobago consists primarily of species with a South American distribution.

The tree is a slender fan palm growing up to 7 metres (23 ft) tall, usually with many stems clustered together.

[6] The species usually grows in low-lying areas near sea level, often in flooded woodlands or thickets in savannas.

Although many sources (e.g., Henderson et al. 1995[2]) consider the name A. aculeata to have precedence over A. horrida, in keeping with the nomenclature of the World checklist,[13] the latter name is used.

Astrocaryum is a genus of spiny palms native to Mexico, Trinidad, Central and South America; the sharp, flattened spines that cover the trunk can be up to 30 cm (12 inches) long.

[2] Palms in the genus Calyptronoma have pinnately compound leaves and large, solitary stems 4 to 15 metres (13 to 49 ft) tall.

[2] Coccothrinax is a genus of fan palms found throughout the Caribbean and in adjacent parts of southern Florida and Mexico.

Colpothrinax is a genus of solitary-stemmed pinnate-leaved palms native to Central America and the Caribbean.

[2] There are three species of Colpothrinax: C. aphanopetala[87] and C. cookii[88] which are restricted to Central America, and C. wrightii which is a Cuban endemic.

Copernicia is a moderately large genus of spiny, fan palms found in the Caribbean and South America.

Desmoncus is a genus of spiny, scrambling, pinnate-leaved palms which range from Mexico in the north to Bolivia and Brazil in the south.

[2] Euterpe consists of seven slender-stemmed, pinnate-leaved palms native to the Caribbean, Central and South America.

[120] Gaussia is a genus of solitary, pinnate palms found in the Caribbean, northern Central America and southern Mexico.

There are five species in the genus - three are endemic to the Greater Antilles, while G. gomez-pompae and G. maya are found in the Caribbean coastal region of Mexico, Belize and Guatemala.

One species has a wide distribution which extends into the insular Caribbean, while the other M. carana is restricted to the Amazon region.

Prestoea is a genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Central and South America and the Caribbean.

[120] Four other species, P. decurrens, P. ensiformis, P. longipetiolata and P. pubens are found along the Caribbean coast of Central America.

Three species are endemic to the Greater Antilles, while the fourth, P. sargentii, is widely distributed in the northern Caribbean and adjacent portions of the Central and North American mainland.

[1] Reinhardtia is a genus of simple or palmate-leaved palms found in the wider Caribbean, between Mexico and Colombia, with a single disjunct species which is endemic to Hispaniola.

Six of the sixteen species are native to the insular Caribbean - three of which are endemic to the Greater Antilles and the Virgin Islands.