Wallichia is a genus of eight species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. In 2016, it was proposed that its species should be included within the genus Arenga, but this was not accepted by Plants of the World Online.
Species The genus is distributed in the Eastern Himalayas, northern Indochina, and southern China.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesGovaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.Flora of China, Vol. 23 Page 152, 瓦理棕属 wa li zong shu, Wallichia Roxburgh, Pl. Coromandel. 3: 91. 1820. Henderson, A. (2009). Palms of Southern Asia: 1-197. Princeton university press, Princeton and Oxford.Barfod, A.S. & Dransfield, J. (2013). Flora of Thailand 11(3): 323-498. The Forest Herbarium, National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Bangkok. Image Scientific name Distribution Wallichia caryotoides Roxb. Bangladesh, China: Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand Wallichia disticha T.Anderson Bangladesh, Bhutan, India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, China: Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos Wallichia gracilis Becc. China: Guangxi, Yunnan, Vietnam Wallichia lidiae A.J.Hend Bago region of Myanmar Wallichia marianneae Hodel Thailand Wallichia nana Griff Bangladesh, 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
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