Hyphaene

Hyphaene is a genus of palms native to Africa, Madagascar, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent.[2][3][4]

Hyphaene
Doum palm in Northern Sudan
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
Subfamily: Coryphoideae
Tribe: Borasseae
Genus: Hyphaene
Gaertn.
Species [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Doma Lam.
  • Cucifera Delile
  • Douma Poir. in H.L.Duhamel du Monceau
  • Chamaeriphes Dill. ex Kuntze

The genus includes the Doum palm (H. thebaica). They are unusual among palms in having regular naturally branched trunks; most other palms are single-stemmed from the ground. In Swahili, it is called ‘’koma’’.

  • Hyphaene compressa H.Wendl. - eastern Africa from Ethiopia to Mozambique
  • Hyphaene coriacea Gaertn. - eastern Africa from South Africa; Madagascar; Juan de Nova Island
  • Hyphaene dichotoma (J.White Dubl. ex Nimmo) Furtado - India, Sri Lanka
  • Hyphaene guineensis Schumach. & Thonn. - western and central Africa from Liberia to Angola
  • Hyphaene macrosperma H.Wendl. - Benin
  • Hyphaene petersiana Klotzsch ex Mart. - southern and eastern Africa from South Africa to Tanzania
  • Hyphaene reptans Becc. - Somalia, Kenya, Yemen
  • Hyphaene thebaica (L.) Mart. - northeastern, central and western Africa from Egypt to Somalia and west to Senegal and Mauritania; Middle East (Palestine, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Yemen)

References
  1. "Hyphaene". The Plant List. 2001. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. Kew Palms Checklist: Hyphaene Archived 2007-02-18 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.


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