Conservation of the Palms (Arecaceae) in the Solid Guamuhaya, county Cienfuegos

During the last 10 years a floristic study was carried out on the family Arecaceae, according to the vegetable formations and the altitude in the southeast region of Cienfuegos province in the Guamuaya Mountains, with the objective of knowing the state of conservation of the palms species of present. The work embraced nine towns in those that the presence of species of this gender was determined by means of the observation method, the collections were carried out in an aleatory and intensive way, keeping in mind the micros hábitats where they progress this group of plants. They were five species, two endemic local, one endemic national and two autochthonous. According to their conservation state they are threatened species. Coccothrinax crinita subsp brevicrinis Borhidi & Muñiz, with category of In Danger (IN); Coccothrinax miraguama subsp. roseocarpa (León) Borhidi & Muñiz, Sabal maritima (Kunth) Burret and Roystonea regia (Kunth) O.F. Cook, smaller Concern (LC), intending In Critical Danger (CP) to Coccothinax sp.