Plectocomia Explained
Plectocomia is a genus of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae native to China, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia.[1] Plants are dioecious, with male and female flowers produced on separate individuals.[2]
Species
The genus contains the following known species:[3] [4]
- Plectocomia assamica Griff. - Bhutan, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Yunnan, Myanmar
- Plectocomia billitonensis Becc. - Belitung
- Plectocomia bractealis Becc. - Assam
- Plectocomia dransfieldiana Madulid - Perak
- Plectocomia elmeri Becc. - Palawan, Mindanao
- Plectocomia elongata Mart. ex Blume - Indochina, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Philippines
- Plectocomia himalayana Griff. - Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Yunnan, Laos, Thailand
- Plectocomia khasyana Griff. - Assam
- Plectocomia longistigma Madulid - Java
- Plectocomia lorzingii Madulid - Sumatra
- Plectocomia macrostachya Kurz - Myanmar
- Plectocomia microstachys Burret - Hainan
- Plectocomia mulleri Blume - Borneo, Malaysia
- Plectocomia pierreana Becc. - Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan
- Plectocomia pygmaea Madulid - Kalimantan
Notes and References
- http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=157807 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=125865 Flora of China, Vol. 23 Page 134, 钩叶藤属 gou ye teng shu, Plectocomia Martius ex Schultes & J. H. Schultes, Syst. Veg. 7: 1333. 1830.
- Book: Andrew Henderson . 2009 . Palms of Southern Asia . . 978-0-691-13449-9 . 156 .
- Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.