Arecaceae

Hyphaene Gaertn.

First published in Fruct. Sem. Pl. 2: 13 (1790)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Tropical & S. Africa to Sri Lanka.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cabinda, Cameroon, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Palestine, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Netherlands Antilles

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

  • Cucifera Delile in Descr. Egypte, Hist. Nat. 1: 53 (1809), nom. illeg.
  • Doma Lam. in Tabl. Encycl.: t. 900 (1799), orth. var.
  • Douma Poir. in H.L.Duhamel du Monceau, Traité Arbr. Arbust., nouv. éd., 4: 47 (1809), nom. illeg.

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Palmweb - Palms of the World Online

  • J. Dransfield & N. Uhl & C. Asmussen & W.J. Baker & M. Harley & C. Lewis, Genera Palmarum. The evolution and classification of palms. 2008

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • F.T.A. 8: 118.
  • Fruct. 1: 28 (1788)

Flora of Somalia

  • Beccari, Palme Borass.: 18–49 (1924).
  • Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Becc., Palme Borass.: 18–49 (1924)
  • Furtado in Garcia de Orta 15: 427–460 (1967)
  • Gard. Bull., Singapore 25: 283–334 (1970)
  • in De Fruct. 1: 28 (1788)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Dec 27, 1996 Gibbons, M.; Spanner, T. [s.n.] Sudan K000525827 No
Trapnell, C.G. [1315] Zambia K:SPC-18241.000 No
New Collector [s.n.] India K001083706 No
Hepper [5724] Yemen K000208669 No
Wild, H. [3099] Zimbabwe K:SPC-22421.000 No
Pratt [YS71] Yemen K000208664 No
Wild, H. [3100] Zimbabwe K:SPC-22420.000 No
Hepper [5726] Yemen K000208665 No
New Collector [s.n.] K001083682 No

Sources

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Palmweb - Palms of the World Online

    • Palmweb 2011. Palmweb: Palms of the World Online. Published on the internet http://www.palmweb.org. Accessed on 21/04/2013
    • Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0