Hyphaene
Genus of palm trees
Hyphaene | |
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Doum palm in Northern Sudan | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Arecales |
Family: | Arecaceae |
Subfamily: | Coryphoideae |
Tribe: | Borasseae |
Genus: | Hyphaene Gaertn. |
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Hyphaene is a genus of palms native to Africa, Madagascar, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent.[2][3][4]
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
- ^ "Hyphaene". The Plant List. 2013. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families[permanent dead link]
- ^ Kew Palms Checklist: Hyphaene Archived 2007-02-18 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 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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Baker & Dransfield (2016) taxonomy
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Lepidocaryeae | |
Calameae |
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Sabaleae | |
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Cryosophileae | |
Phoeniceae |
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Trachycarpeae | |
Chuniophoeniceae | |
Caryoteae | |
Corypheae | |
Borasseae |
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