• 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) : Elaeis guineensis Jacq.
• Common name : Oil Palm, African Oil palm, Jacquin
• Vernacular name : Ennappana (Malayalam)
• Habit : Palm
• Comments / notes : Cultivated for extraction of Palm oil.
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Cultivated
  • Kerala : Thrissur district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district
• Native : Tropical West Africa
• World Distribution : Planted in other parts of the world
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2011 - Palms of Karnataka; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state – Monocotyledons; 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=Elaeis guineensis. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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