Roystonea stellata
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Roystonea stellata is an extinct species of palm endemic to Yagruma terrace in the Maisí region of Guantánamo Province in eastern Cuba. The species is known from only a single collection made by French-born botanist Frère León in 1939.
Description
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Status
No specimens have been found in repeated surveys of its habitat since the 1990s, and thus R. stellata is probably extinct.[2]
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