• Family : ARECACEAE
  (Palm Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : NARIYAL FAMILY (नारियल फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ARECACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Areca catechu L.
• Common name : Beetle nut Palm, Areca nut Palm, Areca palm, Pinang
• Vernacular name : Supari (Hindi); Adike mara (Kannada); Kamugu, Pakku (Tamil); Puga (Sanskrit); Supari (Marathi); Adakkamaram, Adakka, Chempalukka, Kavungu, Kazhangu, Pakku (Malayalam); Vakka, Poka-vakka (Telugu); Gua (Oria); Supari (Hindi)
• Habit : Palm (Columnar)
• Comments / notes : Cultivated throughout on foothills and plains where there is good irrigation facility. The nuts are used by locals and also sold commercially as Beetle nut.
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Cultivated
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Nagpur district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Cultivated
  • Tamil Nadu : Cultivated
• Native : Tropical Asia
• World Distribution : Tropics
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District, Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Areca catechu. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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