Caryota mitis Lour.

 
  • Family : ARECACEAE
    (Palm Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : NARIYAL FAMILY (नारियल फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Arecaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Caryota furfuracea Blume; Caryota griffithii Becc.; Caryota javanica Zipp. ex Miq.; Caryota nana Linden; Caryota propinqua Blume; Caryota purpuracea G.Nicholson; Caryota speciosa Linden; Drymophloeus zippellii Hassk.; Thuessinkia speciosa Korth.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Caryota mitis Lour.
  • Common name : Clustered Fish-Tail Palm
  • Habit : Palm
  • Comments / notes : Cultivated in gardens
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Bengaluru district
    • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district
    • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  • Native : India, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China Southeast, Hainan, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2011 - Palms of Karnataka
    • 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.
    • Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla: 268
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Caryota mitis. Downloaded on 7 October 2024.

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