Pritchardia pacifica Seem. & H.Wendl.

Fiji fan palm, piu, vahane haoè

No habitat climate 20 photographs Tropical foliage plant

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Summary

Pritchardia pacifica, the Fiji fan palm, or piu, is a species of palm tree in the genus Pritchardia that is native to Tonga. It is also found in Fiji, Samoa, and the north-eastern part of India, and the Marquesas. However, these populations are likely to be human introductions.

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About the genus · Pritchardia

The genus Pritchardia consists of between 24 and 40 species of fan palms found on tropical Pacific Ocean islands in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tuamotus, and most diversely in Hawaii. The generic name honors William Thomas Pritchard (1829–1907), a British consul at Fiji.

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Family

Arecaceae

Described by

Seem. & H.Wendl.

Native to

Tonga

Wild records

4 in range· 3 open

At a glance

In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person

Grouped as a tropical foliage plant by Arecaceae, which is usually but not always one kind of plant (archetype table); no habitat climate could be derived for this species. Cold floor 12 °C (conventional for a tropical foliage plant, archetype table).

Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Eupritchardia pacifica (Seem. & H.Wendl.) Kuntze; Pritchardia pacifica var. marquisensis F.Br.; Pritchardia pacifica var. samoensis Becc.; Styloma pacifica (Seem. & H.Wendl.) O.F.Cook; Washingtonia pacifica (Seem. & H.Wendl.) Kuntze.

Cultivation

Grouped as a tropical foliage plant by Arecaceae, which is usually but not always one kind of plant (archetype table). The table supplies one figure for this group, a conventional minimum for the cold floor, and no prose.

Warmth and air Cold floor 12 °C (conventional for a tropical foliage plant, archetype table).

The archetype table’s figure; no habitat figure for this species.

Cold floor: 12 °C, the archetype table's conventional minimum for a tropical foliage plant (grouped by Arecaceae, which is usually but not always one kind of plant); no habitat figure is on file for this species.

The archetype table's conventional minimum for the group; no habitat figure is on file for this species.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.

Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

NativeTonga· introduced: Solomon Is., Fiji, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau-Manihiki, Vanuatu, Cook Is., Marquesas, Society Is., Marshall Is., El Salvador, Trinidad-Tobago

Kew's description“tree” · “wet tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Map marker-21.37, -174.94 · in the densest population, 3 records (75% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 4 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 3 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 3 km away. 156 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. Under a dozen records: treat the map as indicative. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.

The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 4 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Photographs: (c) Diogo Luiz, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Eli, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Daniel Mesa, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) nebrooks, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Mario Guzmán, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Pritchardia pacifica, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Haplaxius crudus (Hemiptera: Cixiidae) Transmits the Lethal Yellowing Phytoplasmas, 16SrIV, to Pritchardia pacifica Seem. & H.Wendl (Arecaceae) in Yucatan, Mexico

J-L Dzido, R Sánchez, Michel Dollet, J. F. Juliá (2020) · Neotropical Entomology

First report of lethal yellowing disease associated with subgroup 16SrIV‐A phytoplasmas in Antigua, West Indies

Wayne Myrie, N. A. Harrison, L. Douglas, Ericka E. Helmick (2014) · New Disease Reports

Changes observed in Pritchardia pacifica palms affected by a lethal yellowing-type disease in Mexico

MarÃa NarvÃ¡ez, Elizabeth OrtÃz, Carmen Silverio, Jorge M. SantamarÃa (2017) · AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Armazenamento de sementes de Pritchardia pacifica

Francival Cardoso Félix, Guilherme Vinícius Gonçalves de Pádua, Fernando Silva Araújo, C.S. Ferrari (2017) · Revista de Ciências Agrárias

Palms of Fiji. I. Endemic, indigenous, and naturalized species: changes in nomenclature, annotated checklist, and discussion

M.F. Doyle, Dorian Q. Fuller (1998)

First report of Raoiella indica Hirst (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) in Costa Rica

Pamela Murillo, Grace Alpízar-Aguilar (2025) · International Journal of Acarology

Detection and identification of ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma palmae’ strains in Hortensia similis and Pritchardia pacifica in Cuba

Camilo Paredes-Tomás, Maritza Luís-Pantoja, Jorge Luis Rodríguez-Tapia, Carlos Oropeza (2022) · European Journal of Plant Pathology

Abstracts of Presentations at the 2012 Caribbean Division Meeting

Dzido, Jean-Luc, Sanchez Borges, Rafael, Narvaez, Maria, Julia, J. (2012) · Phytopathology

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