Areca concinna

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Endangered

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Genus Areca

Solitary or small clump-forming palms, stem annulate , slender, smooth , unarmed , 0.5-25 cm in diameter. Leaves pinnate, pinnae mostly narrow, often with 2 or more principal ribs , long acuminate, rather short stiff. Base of leaf stalk usually forming a prominent shining swollen crown shaft. Leaflets thin, often confluent . Inflorescence much branched, borne at the base of the crown shaft. Female flowers in triads at the base of the rachillae, male flowers small, variously arranged on the upper part of rachillae; sepals small; petals much large, obliquely lanceolate, valvate ; stamens 3-6 (-12-24) or more; anthers basifixed , erect ; female flowers on the base of the rachillae larger than the male, sepals and petals imbricate, petals acute; ovary one-chambered, stigmas 3, very short; ovule one, basal, erect. Fruit ovoid or oblong , exocarp fleshy , fibrous . Seeds with truncate base, embryo basilar.

A genus with c.48 species, distributed from N. W. India, Ceylon, Indo-China, Malesia to the Solomon Islands and Queensland. It[1]

Physical Description

Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial [2].

Ecology: This small clustering palm tree is restricted to lowland rainforest. [2].

Biology

Growth

Culture: Space 6-8' apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 6.1 • Maximum pH: 7.8

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade.

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 10b, 11. (map)

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 11-Nov-2003

Similar Species

Members of the genus Areca

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 17 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

A. alicae (Australian Areca Palm) · A. catecha (Betel-Nut Palm) · A. catechu (Areca Palm) · A. catechu var. alba (Golden Betel-Nut Palm) · A. catechu 'Dwarf' (Dwarf Betel-Nut Palm) · A. concinna (Areca Palm) · A. costulata (Palm) · A. gracilis (Indian Areca Palm) · A. guppyana (Sacred Palm) · A. hutchinsoniana (Areca Palm) · A. ipot (Ipot Palm) · A. lutescens (Champagne Palm (As H Indica)) · A. macrocalyx (Dwarf Bettle Nut Palm) · A. macrocarpa (Palm) · A. triandra (Palm) · A. vestiaria (Orange Crownshaft Palm) · A. vestiaria 'Maroon' (Orange Crownshaft Palm)

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Further Reading

• 1997 IUCN red list of threatened plants Cambridge: IUCN, World Conservation Union, 1998 url p. 727.
• A hand-book to the flora of Ceylon: containing descriptions of all the species of flowering plants indigenous to the island, and notes on their history, distribution, and uses: with an atlas of plates illustrating some of the more inte by Henry Trimen. London: Dulau, 1893-1931. url p. 291.
• A handbook of tropical gardening and planting, with special reference to Ceylon, by H. F. Macmillan. .. Colombo, H.W. Cave & co., 1914. url p. 355.
• A manual of Indian timbers; an account of the growth, distribution, and uses of the trees and shrubs of India and Ceylon with descriptions of their wood-structure, by J. S. Gamble... London: S. Low, Marston & co. ltd., 1902. url p. 726.
• Hand-list of tender momocotyledons, excluding Orchideae, cultivated in the Royal Gardens, Kew. London, Printed for H. M. S. O., by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1897. url p. 231.
• Hand-list of tender monocotyledons, excluding Orchideae, cultivated in the Royal Gardens, Kew. 1897. LondonPrinted for H.M. Stationery Off. by Eyre and Spottiswoode1897 url p. 231.
• Plants in Danger: what do we know? IUCN url p. 336.
• The Garden: an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. London: [s.n., url p. 472.
• The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Bombay: The Society, url , , p. 338, p. 55.
• The World List of Threatened Trees WCMC, IUCN url p. 67.
• The flora of British India /By J. D. Hooker assisted by various botanists. Published under the authority of the secretary of state for India in council. 6 1894 London: L. Reeve, 1875-97. url p. 406, p. 406.
• The garden... London, 1872- url p. 31.
• The gardens' bulletin, Straits Settlements. Singapore: Straits Times Press, 1913-1941. url p. 252, p. 253.
• The illustrated dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists. Ed. by George Nicholson. Assisted by Professor J. W. H. Trail and J. Garrett. London: L. U. Gill, [1884]-89. url p. 110.
• Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd series: Botany 6 1901-1905 London. url p. 440, p. 451, p. 475, p. 482, p. 485, p. 489, p. 490.
• Vernacular list of trees, shrubs, and woody climbers in the Madras Presidency. Madras, Printed by the Superintendant, Government Press, 1915. url p. 355, p. 789.
• Wanderings in the great forests of Borneo; travels and researches of a naturalist in Sarawak, London, A. Constable & co., ltd, 1904. url p. 27.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 31, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Johnson, D. 1998. Areca concinna. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5823454
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-14524
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 664113-1
• IUCN ID: 192544
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 719156

Footnotes

1. Kamal A. Malik "Areca". in Flora of Pakistan Page 3. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Johnson, D. 1998. Areca concinna. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 January 2012. [back]

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