Plantae > Tracheophyta > Liliopsida > Arecales > Arecaceae > Arenga > Arenga pinnataArenga pinnata (sugar palm)Synonyms: Arenga gamuto; Arenga griffithii (homotypic); Arenga saccharifera; Borassus gomutus; Caryota onusta; Gomutus rumphii (homotypic); Gomutus saccharifer; Gomutus vulgaris; Saguerus gamuto; Saguerus pinnatus (homotypic); Saguerus rumphii (homotypic); Saguerus saccharifer; Sagus gomutus Arenga pinnata (syn. Arenga saccharifera) is an economically important feather palm native to tropical Asia, from eastern India east to Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines in the east. Common names include sugar palm, arenga palm, areng palm, black-fiber palm, gomuti palm, aren, enau, irok, and kaong. It is a medium-sized palm, growing to 20 m tall, with the trunk remaining covered by the rough old leaf bases. The leaves are 6–12 m long and 1.5 m broad, pinnate, with the pinnae in 1–6 rows, 40–70 cm long and 5 cm broad. The fruit is subglobose, 7 cm diameter, green maturing black. |
Allergen Potential [1] | Medium |  | Fruit Conspicuous [2] | Yes |  | Leaf Type [3] | Evergreen | Structure [3] | Tree |  | Height [2] | 66 feet (20 m) |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000) ♦ 2Kissling, W. Daniel et al. (2019), Data from: PalmTraits 1.0, a species-level functional trait database for palms worldwide, v4, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ts45225 ♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009 |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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