Sex change in the dioecious palm Ceroxylon quindiuense (Arecaceae)

Sex change is an uncommon event in nature. Animals and plants that change sex during their lifetimes are both taxonomically and geographically widespread, but they comprise a small minority among sexual organisms Policansky 1982). In dioecious plants, those in which individuals are either male or female, sex change is also uncommon, and it has never been recorded in palms, one of the groups of plants with the broadest diversity of sexual systems (Nadot et al. 2016).