Hyphaene

<i>Hyphaene</i>

Hyphaene

Genus of palm trees

Hyphaene is a genus of palms native to Africa, Madagascar, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent.[2][3][4]

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The genus includes the Doum palm (H. thebaica). They are unusual among palms in having regular naturally branched trunks; most other palms are single-stemmed from the ground. In Swahili, it is called "koma".

Species

  • Hyphaene compressa H.Wendl. - eastern Africa from Ethiopia to Mozambique
  • Hyphaene coriacea Gaertn. - eastern Africa from South Africa; Madagascar; Juan de Nova Island
  • Hyphaene dichotoma (J.White Dubl. ex Nimmo) Furtado - India, Sri Lanka
  • Hyphaene guineensis Schumach. & Thonn. - western and central Africa from Liberia to Angola
  • Hyphaene macrosperma H.Wendl. - Benin
  • Hyphaene petersiana Klotzsch ex Mart. - southern and eastern Africa from South Africa to Tanzania
  • Hyphaene reptans Becc. - Somalia, Kenya, Yemen
  • Hyphaene thebaica (L.) Mart. - northeastern, central and western Africa from Egypt to Somalia and west to Senegal and Mauritania; Middle East (Palestine, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Yemen)

References

  1. [1]
    "Hyphaene". The Plant List. 2013. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  2. [2]
    Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. [3]
    Kew Palms Checklist: Hyphaene Archived 2007-02-18 at the Wayback Machine
  4. [4]
    Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.


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