Wallichia Explained

Wallichia is a genus of eight species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae.^[1] In 2016, it was proposed that its species should be included within the genus Arenga,^[2] but this was not accepted by Plants of the World Online.^[1]

Species

The genus is distributed in the Eastern Himalayas, northern Indochina, and southern China.^[3] ^[4] ^[5] ^[6] ^[7]

Image	Scientific name	Distribution
	Wallichia caryotoides Roxb.	Bangladesh, China: Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand
	Wallichia disticha T.Anderson	Bangladesh, Bhutan, India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, China: Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos
	Wallichia gracilis Becc.	China: Guangxi, Yunnan, Vietnam
	Wallichia lidiae A.J.Hend	Bago region of Myanmar
	Wallichia marianneae Hodel	Thailand
	Wallichia nana Griff	Bangladesh, Bhutan, India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam
	Wallichia oblongifolia Griff.	Himalayas of northern and eastern India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China: Yunnan
	Wallichia triandra (J.Joseph) S.K.Basu.	India: Arunachal Pradesh, Tibet

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