Arenga is a genus of palms, native to Southeast Asia, southern China, New Guinea, and northern Australia.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesFlora of China, Vol. 23 Page 151, 桄榔属 guang lang shu, Arenga Labillardière, Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris. 2: 162. 1800. They are small to medium-sized palms, growing to 2–20 m tall, with pinnate leaves 2–12 m long.Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1–223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.Henderson, A. (2009). Palms of Southern Asia: 1–197. Princeton university press, Princeton and Oxford. Arenga palms can grow in areas with little sunlight and relatively infertile soil.
Species Arenga australasica (H.Wendl. & Drude) S.T.Blake ex H.E.Moore – Queensland Arenga brevipes Becc. – Sumatra, Borneo Arenga caudata (Lour.) H.E.Moore – Guangxi, Hainan, Indochina Arenga distincta Mogea – Borneo Arenga engleri Becc. – Taiwan Arenga hastata (Becc.) Whitmore – Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra Arenga hookeriana (Becc.) Whitmore – Thailand, Malaysia Arenga listeri Becc. – Christmas Island Arenga longicarpa C.F.Wei – Guangdong Arenga longipes Mogea – Sumatra Arenga micrantha C.F.Wei – Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh Arenga microcarpa Becc. in K.M.Schumann & U.M.Hollrung – Maluku, New Guinea, Northern Territory of Australia Arenga mindorensis Becc. – Mindoro Arenga obtusifolia Mart.- Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Java Arenga pinnata (Wurmb) Merr. – Assam, Indochina, Philippines, Sulawesi; naturalized in southern China, Benin, Maluku, New Guinea, Hawaii Arenga plicata Mogea – Sumatra Arenga porphyrocarpa (Blume ex Mart.) H.E.Moore – Java, Sumatra Arenga retroflorescens H.E.Moore & Meijer – Sabah Arenga ryukyuensis A.J.Hend – Ryukyu Islands Arenga talamauensis Mogea – Sumatra Arenga tremula (Blanco) Becc. – Philippines Arenga undulatifolia Becc. – Borneo, Palawan, Sulawesi Arenga westerhoutii Griff. – southern China, Indochina, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Bhutan Arenga wightii Griff. – India
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