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Plectocomia

Plectocomia is a genus of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae native to China, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia. Plants are dioecious, with male and female flowers produced on separate individuals.

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Plectocomia
Plectocomia elongata
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
Subfamily: Calamoideae
Tribe: Calameae
Genus: Plectocomia
Mart. & Blume

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:34

  • 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
    (synonym P. khasyana Griff. - Assam)
  • Plectocomia himalayana Griff. - Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Yunnan, Laos, Thailand
  • 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
P. himalayana stems are cooked and eaten as a vegetable in Bhutan source ↗
References

References

  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. 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.
  3. Andrew Henderson (2009). Palms of Southern Asia. Princeton University Press. p. 156. ISBN 978-0-691-13449-9.
  4. Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.