Taxon: Arenga pinnata (Wurmb) Merr.

Common names:

• areng palm   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• black-fiber palm   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• gomuti palm   (Source: Cornucopia ) – English
  
• Malay sago palm   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  
• sugar palm   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• sha tang ye zi   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• arengpalm   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Dutch
  
• arenpalm   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Dutch
  
• gomoetoepalm   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Dutch
  
• sagoeweerpalm   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Dutch
  
• suikerpalm   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Dutch
  
• palmier à sucre   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• palmier areng   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – French
  
• palmier condiar   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – French
  
• echte Zuckerpalme   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• Gomuti-Palme   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• Molukken-Zuckerpalme   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• Sagwire-Palme   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• Zuckerpalme   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• gomuteira   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• barú   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• bary   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• palma de azúcar   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• sockerpalm   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide Pl Res SEAs 9:54. 1996)
  
• Human food: starch   (fide Pl Res SEAs 9:54. 1996; Cornucopia)
  
• Materials: fiber   (fide Pl Res SEAs 9:54. 1996)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [e.]
  Indo-China: Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia [Malaya]; Philippines

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Malesia: Indonesia
• also cultivated elsewhere

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Flach, M. & F. Rumawas, eds. 1996. Plants yielding non-seed carbohydrates. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 9:51.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Govaerts, R. & J. Dransfield. 2005. World checklist of palms.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants.
• Miller, R. H. 1964. The versatile sugar palm. Principes 8:115–147.
• Moore, H. E., Jr. 1963. An annotated checklist of cultivated palms. Principes 7:127.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Westphal, E. & P. C. M. Jansen, eds. 1989. A selection. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). A:50.
• Whitmore, T. C. 1973. Palms of Malaya.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Arenga pinnata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Arenga pinnata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Arenga pinnata.

Synonyms:

• (=) Arenga gamuto (Houtt.) Merr.
  
• (=) "Arenga griffithii Seem. ex H. Wendl., nom. inval."
  
• (=) Arenga saccharifera Labill. ex DC.
  (previously associated with 7 accessions)
• (=) Borassus gomutus Lour.
  
• (=) Caryota onusta Blanco
  
• (=) Gomutus rumphii Corrêa
  
• (=) Gomutus saccharifer (Labill. ex DC.) Spreng.
  
• (=) Gomutus vulgaris Oken
  
• (=) Saguerus gamuto Houtt.
  
• (≡) Saguerus pinnatus Wurmb (basionym)
  (previously associated with 9 accessions)
• (=) Saguerus rumphii (Corrêa) Roxb.
  
• (=) Saguerus saccharifer (Labill. ex DC.) Blume
  
• (=) Sagus gomutus (Lour.) Perr.
  

Check other web resources for Arenga pinnata (Wurmb) Merr.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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