Editing Pritchardia Overview (section)

===The Genus:===
A genus of 27 species of fan palms originating in Pacific Islands.
The type is ''P. pacifica'', [Fiji] and the genus was named in honour of
W. T Pritchard, a British Consul in Fiji in the 19th Century.
The first comprehensive work covering the genus was the monograph
Pritchardia, Beccari and Rock, 1921, but a lack of precision and
ignorance of the degree of variation within the species in this and
other early work lead to over description. A subsequent treatment in
'''The Plants of Hawaii''' rationalises some of the species,
particularly ''P. martii'' and ''P. remota''.
However, new Pritchardia species are still being found and
described as recently as 2004
(''P. flynii'') and 1998 (''P. perlmannii'') both from Kauai.