Arenga pinnata

Arenga pinnata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
Genus: Arenga
Species:
A. pinnata
Binomial name
Arenga pinnata

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.[1] Common names include sugar palm, areng palm (also aren palm or arengga palm), black sugar palm, and kaong palm, among other names.[2][3]

19th-century illustration from Flora de Filipinas by Francisco Manuel Blanco
  1. ^ Uhl, Natalie W.; Dransfield, John. Genera Palmarum – A classification of palms based on the work of Harold E. Moore, Jr. Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Allen Press. ISBN 978-0-935868-30-2. OCLC 15641317.
  2. ^ "Kaong Arenga pinnata (Wurmb) Merr". Philippine Medicinal Plants. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  3. ^ Florido, Helen B.; de Mes, Priscilla B. (2003). "Sugar palm [Arenga pinnata (Wurbm.) Merr.]" (PDF). Research Information Series on Ecosystems. 15 (2): 1–7.