Pinanga sylvestris explained

Pinanga sylvestris is a species of tree in the Arecaceae, or palm tree, family. It grows 2-6 m tall, sometimes in bundles, shade tolerant, from Meghalaya (India) to Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and Zhōngguó/China.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]} In Thailand it is recorded in the Khao Soi Dao Wildlife Sanctuary, in Chanthaburi Province, as a very common mid-storey tree in the Quercus semiserrata-dominated rainforest at 1,400 to 1,540 m.^[6] In Cambodia it occurs uncommonly in coastal vegetation communities, but is common in dense and semi-dense evergreen rainforest in the lowlands and at moderate altitude.^[7] The palm grows in similar dense and semi-dense communities in Laos and Vietnam. On the mountain of Ngọc Linh in Quảng Nam Province of Vietnam, it dominates the ground layer of low montane broadleaf evergreen forest, that occurs from 150 to 1000m.

In Cambodia, the palm is given the names (=palm/areca, =yawn, Lewitz & Rollet give it as, this sort grows in coastal forests), (=black, Lewitz & Rollet give as another name for this variety) and (=mouse, Haynes & McLaughlin give the name as).^[8] The fruit of all of these Cambodian palms may replace areca nut in the betel quid, and sometimes the variety are used as bait in fishing, while the and types have their terminal bud and pith of the trunk harvested for food. In Zhongguo/China a common name is (Pinyin).^[9]

Notes and References

1. Book: Renuka . C. . Sreekumar . V.B. . A Field Guide To The Palms Of India . 2012 . Kerala Forest Research Institute . Peechi, Kerala . 978-81-85041-74-2 . 5 April 2020.
2. John Dransfield . Barfod . A.S. . Pongsattayapipat . R. . A preliminary checklist to Thai Palms . Thai Forest Bulletin (Botany) . 2004 . 32 . 32–72 . 5 April 2020. John Dransfield .
3. Book: Pauline Dy Phon . Plants Used In Cambodia/Plantes utilisées au Cambodge . 2000 . Imprimerie Olympic . Phnom Penh. 499–500. Pauline Dy Phon .
4. Tordoff . Andrew W. . Tran Hieu Minh . Tran Quang Ngoc . A Feasibility Study for the Establishment of Ngoc Linh Nature Reserve, Quang Nam Province, Vietnam . BirdLife International Vietnam Programme and the Forest Inventory and Planning Institute with Financial Support from the European Union, Conservation Report . 2000 . 10 . 135083212 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200225145456/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/bba4/b88d64d48b20d3787acec84536cb0976bb5b.pdf . dead . 2020-02-25 . 6 April 2020.
5. Web site: Pinanga sylvestris . Herbarium Catalogue . Royal Botanic Gardens Kew . 5 April 2020.
6. Parnell . J. . Aeginetia flava: a new and remarkable species of Aeginetia: Orobanchaceae from South-Eastern Thailand . Kew Bulletin . 2012 . 67 . 81–4 . 10.1007/s12225-012-9337-9 . 24141552 . 5 April 2020.
7. Lewitz . S. . Rollet . B. . Lexique des noms d'arbres et d'arbustes du Cambodge . Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient . 1973 . 60 . 117–62 . 10.3406/befeo.1973.5144 . 6 April 2020.
8. Haynes . Jody . McLaughlin . John . Edible Palms and Their Uses . University of Florida, Extension: Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Fact Sheet . 2000 . MDCE-00-50-1 . 6 April 2020.
9. Book: Flora of China Editorial Committee . Acoraceae through Cyperaceae . Flora of China . C. Y. Wu . P. H. Raven . D. Y. Hong . Missouri Botanical Garden Press . St. Louis . 23 . 1–515 . August 2010 . 9781930723993.