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Sugar Palm
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Palms

Sugar Palm

Arenga pinnata (Wurmb) Merr.

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishSugar Palm
DutchSuikerpalm
SpanishPalmera del azúcar
Chinese砂糖椰子
Sranan Tongopalmbon (general name for the group)
Scientific nameArenga pinnata (Wurmb) Merr.

About this species

Arenga pinnata (syn. Arenga saccharifera) is an economically important feather palm native to tropical Asia, from eastern India east to Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines in the east. Common names include sugar palm, areng palm (also aren palm or arengga palm), black sugar palm, and kaong palm, among other names.

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Classification

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassLiliopsida
OrderArecales
FamilyArecaceae
GenusArenga

In Suriname

5Records in Suriname
1963First record

Where it has been recorded

  • Paramaribo4

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

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