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|accepted_name=Acoelorraphe
|accepted_authority=H. Wendland
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Zeitung (Berlin)
|place=37: 148. 1879
|year=1879
}}
|common_names=Paurotis palm;palmier des Everglades
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Paurotis
|authority=O. F. Cook
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Arecaceae;Arecaceae subfam. Coryphoideae;Arecaceae tribe Corypheae;Arecaceae (tribe Corypheae) subtribe Livistoninae;Acoelorraphe
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Arecaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Arecaceae subfam. Coryphoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Arecaceae tribe Corypheae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Arecaceae (tribe Corypheae) subtribe Livistoninae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Acoelorraphe]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek a-, without, coelo, hollow, and raphe, in reference to shape of the seed
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 103
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>moderate, clusteringed palms. <b>Stems</b> caespitose, erect, slender, less than 15 cm diam. <b>Leaves</b>: sheath fibers soft, eventually sloughing off to reveal smooth to fissured stem; petiole not split at base, armed with stout teeth, occasionally obscurely armed with minute teeth; abaxial hastula absent; adaxial hastula conspicuous, acute to acuminate; costa minute to absent; blade palmate; plication induplicate; segments lanceolate, stiff, basally connate. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary within crown of leaves, paniculate, arching, longer than leaves, with 3(–4) orders of branching; prophyll short; peduncular bracts 2, tubular, 2-keeled, long; rachillae pendulous, pubescent. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual, borne singly or in clusters of 2–3 along rachillae, sessile; perianth 2-seriate; sepals 3, imbricate, briefly connate, margins ciliate; petals 3, basally connate, valvate, triangular with adaxial crest; stamens 6, filaments basally connate, acuminate; anthers dorsifixed, versatile; dehiscence latrorse-introrse; pistils 3(–4), distinct basally, glabrous; styles connate, filiform; stigmas minute. <b>Fruits</b> globose, stigmatic scar apical; exocarp blackish, smooth, slightly rugose when dry; mesocarp thin, fleshy; endocarp membranaceous. <b>Seeds</b> 1 per fruit, globose, with circular raphe; endosperm bony, homogeneous; embryo nearly basal; eophyll undivided, lanceolate. <b>x</b>n = 18.</span><!--

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|distribution=Widespread;North America;se Mexico;West Indies;Central America;and n South America (Colombia–Isla de Providencia).
|discussion=<p><i>Acoelorraphe</i> is a widespread monotypic genus. The taxa <i>A. wrightii</i> forma inermis Hadac&#269; and <i>A. wrightii</i> var. novo-geronensis Beccari probably have no biological significance.</p><!--
--><p>Recent molecular studies indicated that <i>Serenoa</i> is the sister genus to <i>Acoelorraphe</i> (N. W. Uhl et al. 1995).</p><!--
--><p>Species 1.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=galeano-garc1986a
|text=Galeano-Garcés, G. 1986. Primer registro de dos géneros de palmas para la flora Colombiana. Mutisia 66: 1--4.
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name=Acoelorraphe
|authority=H. Wendland
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=Paurotis
|basionyms=
|family=Arecaceae
|distribution=Widespread;North America;se Mexico;West Indies;Central America;and n South America (Colombia–Isla de Providencia).
|reference=galeano-garc1986a
|publication title=Bot. Zeitung (Berlin)
|publication year=1879
|special status=
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|subfamily=Arecaceae subfam. Coryphoideae
|tribe=Arecaceae tribe Corypheae
|subtribe=Arecaceae (tribe Corypheae) subtribe Livistoninae
|genus=Acoelorraphe
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