| Lodoicea Comm. ex Labill. ? | ||||||||||||
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| L. maldivica Gmelin | ||||||||||||
| Ref. www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/plants Lodoicea 2003-06-28 based on Hutchinson, 1959, The Families of Flowering Plants (2nd ed.). |
Lodoicea is a genus of palm trees containing a single species, the coco de mer, which has the largest seed of all plants. The name is from Lodoicus, the Latinized form of Louis, in honour of King Louis XV of France.