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Taxon:  Borassus flabellifer L.



Summary
Genus:
Borassus
Family:
Arecaceae (alt. Palmae)
Subfamily:
Coryphoideae
Tribe:
Borasseae
Subtribe:
Lataniinae
Nomen number:
7425
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:1187. 1753
Verified:
12/31/1996 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images
Reference(s)
  1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009 Note:
    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  2. Blatter, E. B. 1926. The palms of British India and Ceylon. 174-213.
  3. Chinese Academy of Sciences. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959-
  4. Encke, F. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. 1984
  5. Facciola, S. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. 1990 Note: Kampong Publications
  6. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Borassus+flabellifer&quantity=1
  7. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
  8. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
  9. Mabberley, D. J. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. 1997
  10. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
  11. Matthew, K. M. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic. 1983
  12. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 Note: American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
  13. Moore, H. E., Jr. 1963. An annotated checklist of cultivated palms. Principes 7:131.
  14. Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. Flora of [West] Pakistan. 1970-
  15. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  16. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  17. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952- Note: mentions
  18. Uhl, N. W. & J. Dransfield. Genera palmarum: a classification of palms based on the work of Harold E. Moore, Jr. 1987
  19. Uphof, J. C. T. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. 1968
  20. Yaacob, O. & S. Subhadrabandhu. The production of economic fruits in South-East Asia. 1995
Common names
English
doub palm –
palmyra palm –
tala palm –
toddy palm –
wine palm –
French
borasse –
rônier –
German
Lontaro –
Palmyrapalme –
Portuguese
broção –
palmira –
Portuguese (Brazil)
boraço –
Spanish
boraso –
palma palmira –
Swedish
palmyrapalm –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentSri Lanka  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaIndochina  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaMyanmar  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaThailand  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaMalaysia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaPapua New Guinea  
2Cultivated    also cult.
Native
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Sri Lanka
  • INDO-CHINA: Indochina, Myanmar, Thailand
  • MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea
Cultivated (also cult.)
Economic Uses
Environmental
Human food
beverage base (source of sugar, wine, and vinegar fide Dict Econ Pl) –
Materials
fiber (fide Pl Book) –
Medicines
folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2) –


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