Wallichia

Wallichia as described by A. P. de Candolle is now Eriolaena.
Wallichia
Wallichia densiflora
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
Subfamily: Coryphoideae
Tribe: Caryoteae
Genus: Wallichia
Roxb.
Synonyms[1]
  • Harina Buch.-Ham.
  • Wrightea Roxb.
  • Asraoa J.Joseph

Wallichia is a genus of seven species of flowering plant in the Arecaceae (palm) family. The genus is distributed in the Eastern Himalayas, northern Indochina, and southern China.[1][2][3][4][5]

  1. Wallichia caryotoides Roxb. - Bangladesh, Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand
  2. Wallichia disticha T.Anderson - Bangladesh, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos
  3. Wallichia gracilis Becc. - Guangxi, Yunnan, Vietnam
  4. Wallichia lidiae A.J.Hend - Bago region of Myanmar
  5. Wallichia marianneae Hodel - Thailand
  6. Wallichia nana Griff - Bangladesh, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam
  7. Wallichia oblongifolia Griff. - Himalayas of northern and eastern India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Yunnan
  8. Wallichia triandra (J.Joseph) S.K.Basu. - Arunachal Pradesh, Tibet

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  3. ↑ Flora of China, Vol. 23 Page 152, 瓦理棕属 wa li zong shu, Wallichia Roxburgh, Pl. Coromandel. 3: 91. 1820.
  4. ↑ Henderson, A. (2009). Palms of Southern Asia: 1-197. Princeton university press, Princeton and Oxford.
  5. ↑ Barfod, A.S. & Dransfield, J. (2013). Flora of Thailand 11(3): 323-498. The Forest Herbarium, National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Bangkok.
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