Pinanga dicksonii Blume

Species

Angiosperms > Arecales > Arecaceae > Pinanga

Characteristics

A palm. It can be a solitary or clumping palm. The trunks are slender and green. They can be 5-8 m tall and 5 cm thick. The trunk has widely spaced light grey rings of leaf base scars. The crown-shaft is 60 cm tall. The leaves are about 1 m long and have leaflets along the stalk. These are broad and without leaflet stalks. They can be 60 cm long. The flowering branches are golden when new. The fruit are 2 cm long and reddish when ripe.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
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Mature height (meter) 6.0
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Environment

A tropical plant. It occurs naturally in cool, humid mountains gullies. In the Indian Ghats it grows to 330 m altitude. They are somewhat cold tolerant. They suit the tropics and subtropics. Shade is preferable. In Townsville palmetum.
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Lowland rainforest; at elevations from 350-1,000 metres.
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Usage

The nut is used as a betel substitute.
Uses medicinal
Edible fruits nuts seeds
Therapeutic use Carminative (unspecified), Deobstruent (unspecified), Dropsy (unspecified), Masticatory (unspecified), Stomach (unspecified), Cholera (unspecified)
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
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Images

Pinanga dicksonii unspecified picture

Distribution

Pinanga dicksonii world distribution map, present in Indonesia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:669061-1
WFO ID wfo-0000273679
COL ID 77LH6
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Synonyms

Seaforthia dicksonii Areca dicksonii Pinanga dicksonii Ptychosperma dicksonii