23 minutes ago, palmtreesforpleasure said:

Chamaedorea schippi and Chamaedorea graminifolia are different species.

In Don Hodels book on Chamaedorea say they are one and the same, however in a later paper he published he separated the species, stating C.  graminifolia is a single trunk species.

This has shown not to be quite correct.

They can be both.

Single and clustering forms both grow in Sydney botanic gardens.

Mine have both forms, however many did not show the clustering form until after seeding.

Some people unknowingly sold C graminifolia as Schippi before they became 2 species

Hope that helps.

 

Regards

Colin

Interesting bit of information. So it seems I have graminifolia in garden as mature plants, from what I understand I have the real schippii, for now time will tell! 
Richard 

1 hour ago, palmtreesforpleasure said:

Chamaedorea schippi and Chamaedorea graminifolia are different species.

In Don Hodels book on Chamaedorea say they are one and the same, however in a later paper he published he separated the species, stating C.  graminifolia is a single trunk species.

This has shown not to be quite correct.

They can be both.

Single and clustering forms both grow in Sydney botanic gardens.

Mine have both forms, however many did not show the clustering form until after seeding.

Some people unknowingly sold C graminifolia as Schippi before they became 2 species

Hope that helps.

 

Regards

Colin

Yes Colin 

I had many Chamaedorea graminifolia made with your seeds, unfortunately all dead, when I was in the hospital no one watered them, my wife worked all day and my son was always studying, now my son is a mathematician and physicist

Hello Richard, 

I traced the original source of your Schippi (not the supplier),  and know who identified it, the seed source maybe from my garden, I think it will be C graminifolia, only time will tell

4 hours ago, palmtreesforpleasure said:

Hello Richard, 

I traced the original source of your Schippi (not the supplier),  and know who identified it, the seed source maybe from my garden, I think it will be C graminifolia, only time will tell

I will keep an eye on it! And see the supplier about a refund 🤣

On 8/28/2025 at 6:50 AM, tim_brissy_13 said:

Nice find Richard! I’ve been on the look out for this species (and basically all other Chams I don’t have) but they are very rare. There was initially some confusion between it and C gramilifolia but they are distinct (notably clumping vs solitary). There’s some brief info in here about C schippii but it’s a great article on other rare Chams too. 
 

https://palms.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/vol57n4p161-175.pdf

It’s a synonym of *graminifolia in Henderson, Galeano and Bernals field guide book. 

3 hours ago, KrisKupsch said:

It’s a synonym of *graminifolia in Henderson, Galeano and Bernals field guide book. 

Apparently it has been written that way, Hodel may have written a revised paper about the palm in question.