Wallichia

Wallichia is a genus of seven species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae.

Wallichia as described by A. P. de Candolle is now Eriolaena.

Wallichia
Wallichia densiflora
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
Subfamily: Coryphoideae
Tribe: Caryoteae
Genus: Wallichia
Roxb.
Type species
Wallichia caryotoides
Synonyms[1]
  • Harina Buch.-Ham.
  • Wrightea Roxb.
  • Asraoa J.Joseph

Species

The genus is distributed in the Eastern Himalayas, northern Indochina, and southern China.[1][2][3][4][5]

ImageScientific nameDistribution
Wallichia caryotoides Roxb.Bangladesh, China: Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand
Wallichia disticha T.AndersonBangladesh, Bhutan, India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, China: Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos
Wallichia gracilis Becc.China: Guangxi, Yunnan, Vietnam
Wallichia lidiae A.J.HendBago region of Myanmar
Wallichia marianneae HodelThailand
Wallichia nana GriffBangladesh, 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


References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  3. Flora of China, Vol. 23 Page 152, 瓦理棕属 wa li zong shu, Wallichia Roxburgh, Pl. Coromandel. 3: 91. 1820.
  4. Henderson, A. (2009). Palms of Southern Asia: 1-197. Princeton university press, Princeton and Oxford.
  5. Barfod, A.S. & Dransfield, J. (2013). Flora of Thailand 11(3): 323-498. The Forest Herbarium, National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Bangkok.


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