Washingtonia filifera

TaxID: 145714

Basic Information

Washingtonia filifera

California Fan Palm

Washingtonia filifera, commonly known as the California fan palm, cotton palm or desert fan palm, is a flowering plant in the family Arecaceae, native to the far southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. It typically grows 30 C50 feet (9 C15 m) tall and 1 C2 feet (0.3 C0.6 m) wide, with a sturdy, columnar trunk and waxy, fan-shaped (palmate) leaves. As a monocot, it is evergreen and exhibits a tree-like growth habit. It is the only palm species native to the southwestern United States, forming groves around perennial water sources in the Colorado, Mojave, and Sonoran deserts. These stands provide critical habitat for wildlife and were historically used by Indigenous peoples of the region for food, shelter, and materials. Today the California fan palm is widely planted as an ornamental tree in arid and subtropical climates, though wild populations face pressures from groundwater decline, and habitat alteration. In California, where the majority of its native groves occur, the species forms iconic desert oases such as the Oasis of Mara in Joshua Tree National Park, the Thousand Palms Oasis in the Coachella Valley Preserve, Lost Palms Oasis, and Fortynine Palms Oasis. Outside California, notable populations are protected at Castle Creek in Arizona's Bradshaw Mountains, the Hassayampa River Preserve, and Kofa National Wildlife Refuge.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Arecales

Arecaceae

Washingtonia

filifera

Unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

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(c) Fred Melgert / Carla Hoegen@BY-NC
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(c) unknown@CC0
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(c) Thibaud Aronson@BY-SA
Washingtonia filifera
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(c) Jeff Harding@BY-NC
Washingtonia filifera
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(c) R.J. Adams@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
French Polynesia Absent —

Distribution (26 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
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Absent
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Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Albania Present —
Australia Present —
Benin Present —
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Present —
Colombia Present —
Cyprus Present —
Ecuador Present —
Egypt Present —
Spain Present —
France Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (5 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
SDH2853-15 - rbcLa 552 United States 2004-12-11 32.9531, -116.3097
SDH2853-15 - matK 775 United States 2004-12-11 32.9531, -116.3097
GBVS3692-13 - matK 1542 - 2005-07-01 -
GBVS3691-13 - matK 1537 - 2005-07-01 -
GBVA3095-11 - rbcL 1386 - - -

Literature