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Taxon: Phoenix reclinata Jacq.

Genus: Phoenix
Family: Arecaceae (alt. Palmae) subfamily: Coryphoideae tribe: Phoeniceae.
Nomen number: 28054
Place of publication: Fragm. bot. 1:27, t. 24. 1800-1809
Name verified on: 14-Oct-1999 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 17-Apr-2008
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).
Accessions: 7 in National Plant Germplasm System.
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Common names:

  • Senegal date palm   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • wild date palm   (Source: Use Pl Ghana ) – English
  • dattier du Ségégal   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia
    East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
    West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Gabon; Rwanda; Zaire
    West Tropical Africa: Benin; Cote D'Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone
    South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
    Southern Africa: Botswana; South Africa - Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal
    Western Indian Ocean: Comoros; Madagascar [n. & s.w.]
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia [s.]; Yemen

      Naturalized:
  • naturalized elsewhere

References:

  • Abbiw, D. K. 1990. Useful plants of Ghana. (Use Pl Ghana)
  • Andrews, F. W. 1950–1956. The flowering plants of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. (F Sudan)
  • Arnold, T. H. & B. C. De Wet, eds. 1993. Plants of southern Africa: names and distribution. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa no. 62. (Pl SAfr)
  • Barrow, S. C. 1998. A monograph of Phoenix L. (Palmae: Coryphoideae). Kew Bull. 53:533.
  • Cufodontis, G. 1953–1972. Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta. (F EthiopCuf)
  • Dransfield, J. & H. Beentje. 1995. The palms of Madagascar. (Palms Madag)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. (Cornucopia)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
  • Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
  • Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). (Krussmann)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Moore, H. E., Jr. 1963. An annotated checklist of cultivated palms. Principes 7:157.
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Reitz, R., ed. 1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense. (F SCatarin)
  • St. John, H. 1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands. (L Hawaii)
  • Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia. (F Somalia)
  • Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
  • Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)
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Check other databases for Phoenix reclinata Jacq.:

  • Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
  • SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
  • On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?28054 (09 February 2010)

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