Livistona saribus
Livistona saribus, also known as taraw palm in English, is a species of palm tree found in tropical Southeast Asia.[2]
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Arecales |
| Family: | Arecaceae |
| Tribe: | Trachycarpeae |
| Genus: | Livistona |
| Species: | L. saribus |
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Common names
One of the vernacular names in the Cambodian language is triëk.[3] In Malay it is known as serdang, or sar in the state of Trengganu. The specific epithet saribus comes from a local name (for what was probably another palm species) in one of the Maluku languages: sariboe, as recorded by the Dutch.[4]
Description
Livistona saribus produces blue fruits, and is cold hardy to twenty-four degrees Celsius. It has spines along the leaf stems which resemble shark teeth.[5][6] It usually grows to 12–18 metres (39–59 ft) in height,[4][5] exceptionally to 30.5 metres (100 ft).[4]
Distribution
It has a native distribution stretching through Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Java and the Philippines. It is also reportedly naturalized in the Society Islands of French Polynesia and also in the Guangdong and Yunnan regions of China.[2]
It is widespread throughout Malaysia, but is rare in western Peninsular Malaysia, being found only in scattered localities on low hills. In the east, however, it forms extensive forests on the coastal hills in the state of Trengganu, and inland in the state of Pahang, as far south as to the Johore border.[4]
Ecology
It grows in dense, closed, disturbed secondary forests.[3]
References
- The Plant List
- "Livistona saribus". Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families.
- Dy Phon, Pauline (2000). Plantes utilisees au Cambodge. Phnom Penh: Imprimerie Olympic. p. 406.
- Whitmore, T.C. (1979). Palms of Malaya. 2nd impression (2 ed.). Petaling Jaya: Oxford University Press. p. 72, 73. ISBN 0-19-580368X.
- Chevalier, Auguste Jean Baptiste (1919). "Livistona saribus". Bulletin Économique de l'Indochine (in French). 21 (137): 501–502.
- de Loureiro, João (1790). Corypha saribus in Flora cochinchinensis: sistens plantas in regno Cochinchina nascentes. Quibus accedunt aliæ observatæ in Sinensi imperio, Africa Orientali, Indiæque locis variis. Omnes dispositæ secundum systema sexuale Linnæanum (in Latin). Vol. 1. Ulyssipone. p. 212.
