Arenga

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
  • Arenga engleri

Arenga
Arenga pinnata
Scientific 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.

References
  1. 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. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUS115545511820110718
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