Leucothrinax morrisii(H.Wendl.) C.Lewis & Zona

Key thatch palm

WFO wfo-0000813266 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Leucothrinax morrisii, photographed by Bill Michalek
fig. a Bill Michalek, CC0 1.0 / 2022-02-25 / obs. 183878090
Leucothrinax morrisii, photographed by Ben Machado
fig. b Ben Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 121481465
Leucothrinax morrisii, photographed by Tom Field
fig. c Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107728016
Leucothrinax morrisii, photographed by Paul
fig. d Paul, CC0 1.0 / obs. 65686371
Leucothrinax morrisii, photographed by Ben Machado
fig. e Ben Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63985094
Leucothrinax morrisii, photographed by Ben Machado
fig. f Ben Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63713620
Leucothrinax morrisii, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. g Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61217737
Leucothrinax morrisii, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. h Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61098599

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Leucothrinax morrisii is native: Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico, Turks-Caicos Is. FloridaCubaHaitiPuerto Rico BahamasLeeward Is.Turks-Caicos Is.
Native distribution of Leucothrinax morrisii, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bahamas BAH SOUTHERN AMERICA
Cuba CUB
Haiti HAI
Leeward Is. LEE
Puerto Rico PUE
Turks-Caicos Is. TCI
Florida FLA NORTHERN AMERICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 11 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Simpsonia microcarpa (Sarg.) O.F.Cook
  • Thrinax bahamensis O.F.Cook
  • Thrinax drudei Becc.
  • Thrinax ekmanii Burret
  • Thrinax havanensis Anon.
  • Thrinax keyensis Sarg.
  • Thrinax microcarpa Sarg.
  • Thrinax morrisii H.Wendl.
  • Thrinax ponceana O.F.Cook
  • Thrinax praeceps O.F.Cook
  • Thrinax punctulata Becc.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol LEMO5. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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