Palm tree
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Borassus flabelliformis L. |
| synonym | Borassus sundaicus Becc. |
| synonym | Borassus tunicatus Lour. |
| synonym | Lontarus domestica Gaertn., nom. superfl. |
| synonym | Pholidocarpus tunicatus (Lour.) H.Wendl. |
| synonym | Thrinax tunicata (Lour.) Rollisson |
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📚 Overview
Description
Trees to 40 m; stem obscurely hoped. Leaves simple, palmate, plicately multifid; leaflets 60-80, induplicate, apex acuminate; petiole stout, spinous, base broad, split. Spadices interfoliar, large, dioecious, branched; peduncle sheathed with open spathes. Male flowers small, clustered; bracts scaly, secund, overlapping. Sepals 3, oblong, to 3 mm. Petals 3, obovate-spathulate, to 2 mm. Stamens 6; anthers to 1 mm; pistillodes small, bristly. Female flowers large, globose. Perianth fleshy, accrescent. Sepals reniform, imbricate. Petals smaller, convolute. Ovary globose, entire or 3-or-1-cleft, 3-or 4-celled; ovules basal; stigmas 3, sessile, recurved; staminodes 6-9. Drupes to 13 cm across, globose, yellow when ripe, with 1-3 compressed pyrenes.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
In dry areas and along bunds in paddy fields
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Description
Global Distribution
India: Assam; Tropical Asia
Indian Distribution
Assam
Global Distribution
Native of Africa; introduced and cultivated in Indo-Malesia and Australia
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Folk medicine
Siddha
Unani
Sowa-Rigpa
System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Sowa-Rigpa, Unani, Siddha
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=344
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=344 |
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Medicinal
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=344
- Borassus flabelliformis Murr. in L., Syst. Veg. (ed. 13) 827. 1774.
- Borassus flabellifer L., Sp. Pl. 1187. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 482. 1893; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1562(1090). 1931; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 299. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 426. 1984; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 412. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 828. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 526. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 491. 1994; Renuka, Palms Kerala 19. 1999; Bayton, Kew Bull. 62: 572. 2007; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 714. 2009.
Information Listing > References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=344
- Borassus flabelliformis Murr. in L., Syst. Veg. (ed. 13) 827. 1774.
- Borassus flabellifer L., Sp. Pl. 1187. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 482. 1893; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1562(1090). 1931; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 299. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 426. 1984; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 412. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 828. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 526. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 491. 1994; Renuka, Palms Kerala 19. 1999; Bayton, Kew Bull. 62: 572. 2007; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 714. 2009.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Liliopsida |
| Order | Arecales |
| Family | Arecaceae |
| Genus | Borassus |
| Species | Borassus flabellifer L. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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