- Family : ARECACEAE
(Palm Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : NARIYAL FAMILY (नारियल फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Arecaceae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Cocos nucifera L.
- Common name : Coconut Palm
- Vernacular name :
- Kalpavriksha, Narikelavrksah, Narikelah (Sanskrit)
- Narial-ka-Ped, Narial (Hindi)
- Thengina mara (Kannada)
- Thennai (Tamil)
- Narel (Marathi)
- Thengu (Malayalam)
- Nadia, Nodia (Oria)
- Narial, Nari, Narikelamu, Tenkaya (Telugu)
- Habit : Palm
- Comments / notes : Extensively cultivated throughout. Wood is used for building purposes. The fibrous mesocarp of the fruit yeilds the coir fibre used for ropes, nets. Sap of the peduncle yeilds toddy. The kernel of the fruit is edible and yeilds an edible oil.
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Distribution :
- Goa : Goa
- Karnataka : Cultivated
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Nagpur district, Osmanabad district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
- Tamil Nadu : Tamil Nadu
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Native : Australia, Bismarck Archipelago, Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Vanuatu
- Exotic/Native : Exotic
- World Distribution : Australia, Bismarck Archipelago, Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Vanuatu
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2011 - Palms of Karnataka
- Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons
- 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.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 224
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cocos nucifera. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Line Drawings
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Field Image(s)
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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