Arenga
Arenga pinnata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
Tribe: Caryoteae
Genus: Arenga
Labill. ex DC.
Synonyms[1]
  • Saguerus Steck
  • Gomutus Corrêa
  • Blancoa Blume 1843, illegitimate homonym, not Lindl. 1840
  • Didymosperma H.Wendl. & Drude ex Hook.f.

Arenga is a genus of palms, native to Southeast Asia, southern China, New Guinea, and northern Australia.[1][2] They are small to medium-sized palms, growing to 2–20 m tall, with pinnate leaves 2–12 m long.[3][4] Arenga palms can grow in areas with little sunlight and relatively infertile soil.[5]

Species

  • Arenga australasica (H.Wendl. & Drude) S.T.Blake ex H.E.Moore – Queensland
  • Arenga brevipes Becc. – Sumatra, Borneo
  • Arenga caudata (Lour.) H.E.Moore – Guangxi, Hainan, Indochina
  • Arenga distincta Mogea – Borneo
  • Arenga engleri Becc. – Taiwan
  • Arenga hastata (Becc.) Whitmore – Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra
  • Arenga hookeriana (Becc.) Whitmore – Thailand, Malaysia
  • Arenga listeri Becc. – Christmas Island
  • Arenga longicarpa C.F.Wei – Guangdong
  • Arenga longipes Mogea – Sumatra
  • Arenga micrantha C.F.Wei – Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh
  • Arenga microcarpa Becc. in K.M.Schumann & U.M.Hollrung – Maluku, New Guinea, Northern Territory of Australia
  • Arenga mindorensis Becc. – Mindoro
  • Arenga obtusifolia Mart.- Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Java
  • Arenga pinnata (Wurmb) Merr. – Assam, Indochina, Philippines, Sulawesi; naturalized in southern China, Benin, Maluku, New Guinea, Hawaii
  • Arenga plicata Mogea – Sumatra
  • Arenga porphyrocarpa (Blume ex Mart.) H.E.Moore – Java, Sumatra
  • Arenga retroflorescens H.E.Moore & Meijer – Sabah
  • Arenga ryukyuensis A.J.Hend – Ryukyu Islands
  • Arenga talamauensis Mogea – Sumatra
  • Arenga tremula (Blanco) Becc. – Philippines
  • Arenga undulatifolia Becc. – Borneo, Palawan, Sulawesi
  • Arenga westerhoutii Griff. – southern China, Indochina, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Bhutan
  • Arenga wightii Griff. – India

References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Flora of China, Vol. 23 Page 151, 桄榔属 guang lang shu, Arenga Labillardière, Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris. 2: 162. 1800.
  3. Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1–223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  4. Henderson, A. (2009). Palms of Southern Asia: 1–197. Princeton university press, Princeton and Oxford.
  5. "The Amazing Arenga Sugar Palm | Reuters". Reuters.


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