Nypa Steck

Genus

Angiosperms > Arecales > Arecaceae

Characteristics

Creeping colonial palm with dichotomously branched prostrate stems; stems dorsally flattened. Leaf base broadly sheathing; petiole stout; rachis pruinose to glabrous; pinnae numerous, evenly arranged. Inflorescence interfoliar, solitary, erect, branched 5 or 6 orders, protogynous; peduncle terete; prophyll tubular; peduncular and rachis bracts imbricate, carinate, splitting lengthwise; rachis shorter than peduncle; first order branches 7–9, spirally arranged, ending in staminate rachillae; rachis terminating in a head of pistillate flowers. Staminate flowers crowded, solitary, sessile, emerging on catkin-like spikes below pistillate heads; sepals and petals minute; stamens 3; filaments connate in a solid stalk; anthers basifixed, elongate, extrorse. Pistillate flowers with 3 or 4 free carpels developing to fruit. Fruit irregularly angular with longitudinal grooves; stigmatic remains apical; endocarp with interwoven fibres. Seed grooved adaxially; embryo basal. Eophyll bifid or compound.
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Stems creeping, seldom visible above mud in which they grow, rooting from abaxial surface, branching dichotomously, forming large colonies. Leaves 3-15, pinnate, stiff and erect; leaf sheaths open and relatively short; petioles elongate and stout; pinnae many, regularly arranged and spreading in same plane, with conspicuous, brown ramenta on abaxial surface along midveins. Inflorescences branched to 5 or 6 orders, borne on a stout stalk arising from center of leaves; flowers borne in dense heads; male flowers densely arranged along short rachillae, closely covered with light brown bracts; female flowers borne in dense, central heads. Fruits densely arranged in head-shaped clusters of many fruits, large, irregularly globose, flattened and angled, usually 1-seeded; endosperm homogeneous; eophylls bifid.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Images

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Distribution

Nypa world distribution map, present in Andorra, Australia, Bangladesh, China, Guyana, Indonesia, Moldova (Republic of), Myanmar, Nigeria, Panama, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Thailand, United States of America, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:31397-1
WFO ID wfo-4000026428
COL ID 8VZSM
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INPN ID 446148
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Synonyms

Nipa Nypa

Lower taxons

Nypa fruticans