kentia


kentia

(ˈkɛntɪə) n (Botany) a plant name formerly used to include palms now allotted to several different genera and still used commercially to denote the feather palm genus Howea; native to Lord Howe Island, popular as greenhouse or house plants for their decorative arching foliage: family Palmaceae[named after William Kent (died 1828), British botanist]