ABSTRACT
The generic name honors the Northern Irish botanist and biochemist Dr. Hugh Shaw MacKee (1912–1995) and his wife, Margaret E. Mackee, palm collectors in New Caledonia, travellers in Australasia, Belize, Mexico and Pacific region, he was co-editor of the Flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie (published by the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris) from 1983, see Compt. Rend. Hebd. Séances Acad. Sci. 77: 398. 1873 and Hedge, I.C. & Lamond, J.M., Index Coll. Edindb. Herb. (1970): 106. 1970, Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. M (1976): 483. 1976, Gentes Herbarum 11: 304. 1978, Knobloch, I.W., Phytologia Mem. 6 (1983): 57. 1983, Harold E. Moore, Jr. and Natalie W. Uhl, ‘The Indigenous Palms of New Caledonia.’ Allertonia 3(5): 313–402. September 1984, Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 392. 1992, P. Morat, Bulletin du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, 4th sér, 17: 139–148. 1995, Pintaud, J.-C. & D.R. Hodel. ‘A revision of Kentiopsis, a genus endemic to New Caledonia.’ Principes 42: 32–33, 41–53. 1998, Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. World Checklist of Palms. 138, 150. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2005 [as Kentiopsis.], Conny B. Asmussen et al., ‘A new subfamily classification of the palm family (Arecaceae): evidence from plastid DNA phylogeny.’ Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 2006(151): 15–38. 2006, Jean-Cristoph Pintaud and Baker, W.J. ‘A revision of the palm genera (Arecaceae) of New Caledonia.’ Kew Bulletin 63(1): 61–73. 2008 [as Kentiopsis.], Michael Heads, ‘The endemic plant families and the palms of New Caledonia: a biogeographical analysis.’ Journal of Biogeography 37: 1239–1250. 2010, William J. Baker et al., ‘Phylogenetic relationships among arecoid palms (Arecaceae: Arecoideae).’ Annals of Botany 108: 1417–1432. 2011, Boris Domenech et al., ‘A phylogenetic analysis of palm subtribe Archontophoenicinae (Arecaceae) based on 14 DNA regions.’ Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 175: 469–481 2014.
