Arenga Explained

Arenga is a genus of palms, native to Southeast Asia, southern China, New Guinea, and northern Australia.^{[1] [2]} They are small to medium-sized palms, growing to 2–20 m tall, with pinnate leaves 2–12 m long.^{[3] [4]} Arenga palms can grow in areas with little sunlight and relatively infertile soil.^[5]

Species

• Arenga australasica (H.Wendl. & Drude) S.T.Blake ex H.E.Moore – Queensland
• Arenga brevipes Becc. – Sumatra, Borneo
• Arenga caudata (Lour.) H.E.Moore – Guangxi, Hainan, Indochina
• Arenga distincta Mogea – Borneo
• Arenga engleri Becc. – Taiwan
• Arenga hastata (Becc.) Whitmore – Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra
• Arenga hookeriana (Becc.) Whitmore – Thailand, Malaysia
• Arenga listeri Becc. – Christmas Island
• Arenga longicarpa C.F.Wei – Guangdong
• Arenga longipes Mogea – Sumatra
• Arenga micrantha C.F.Wei – Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh
• Arenga microcarpa Becc. in K.M.Schumann & U.M.Hollrung – Maluku, New Guinea, Northern Territory of Australia
• Arenga mindorensis Becc. – Mindoro
• Arenga obtusifolia Mart.- Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Java
• Arenga pinnata (Wurmb) Merr. – Assam, Indochina, Philippines, Sulawesi; naturalized in southern China, Benin, Maluku, New Guinea, Hawaii
• Arenga plicata Mogea – Sumatra
• Arenga porphyrocarpa (Blume ex Mart.) H.E.Moore – Java, Sumatra
• Arenga retroflorescens H.E.Moore & Meijer – Sabah
• Arenga ryukyuensis A.J.Hend – Ryukyu Islands
• Arenga talamauensis Mogea – Sumatra
• Arenga tremula (Blanco) Becc. – Philippines
• Arenga undulatifolia Becc. – Borneo, Palawan, Sulawesi
• Arenga westerhoutii Griff. – southern China, Indochina, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Bhutan
• Arenga wightii Griff. – India

Notes and References

1. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=14659 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=102521 Flora of China, Vol. 23 Page 151, 桄榔属 guang lang shu, Arenga Labillardière, Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris. 2: 162. 1800.
3. Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1–223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
4. Henderson, A. (2009). Palms of Southern Asia: 1–197. Princeton university press, Princeton and Oxford.
5. Web site: The Amazing Arenga Sugar Palm. Reuters.