Arecaceae

Common princess palm

Dictyosperma album (Bory) Scheff.

Family: Arecaceae
Genus: Dictyosperma

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Common princess palm: Princess (or Hurricane) palm ( Dictyosperma album ) - cluster in the fields, Réunion island — Photo: B.navez, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons

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Common names

By language (10)

Arabic: ذو البذر الشبكي
arz: نخيل دكتوسبرما
Chinese: 網子椰子, 网子椰子, 白金椰, 白飓风椰, 网子椰
Dutch: Dictyosperma
English: Common princess palm, Hurricane palm, Princess palm, Round Island hurricane palm
Esperanto: Uragana palmo
French: Palmiste blanc
Latvian: Orkāna palma
Portuguese: Dictyosperma
Spanish: Dictyosperma, Dicrosperma, Linoma, Sublimia palmicaulis

Synonyms

Areca alba Bory
Linoma alba (Bory) O.F.Cook

Photos

Photo: B.navez, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: B.navez, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Photo: Photo by David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Photo by David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Photo by David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons

Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.