Arecaceae

Phoenix L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 1188 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Africa, Kriti to W. & Central Malesia.

Distribution

Native to:

Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Central African Republic, China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, Congo, Djibouti, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf States, Hainan, India, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Kriti, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sumatera, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Afghanistan, Algeria, Azores, Bermuda, Bolivia, California, Cayman Is., Chad, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Fiji, Florida, Great Britain, Greece, Gulf of Guinea Is., Italy, Leeward Is., Libya, Madeira, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico Northwest, Morocco, Mozambique Channel Is., New Caledonia, New South Wales, New Zealand North, Norfolk Is., Northern Territory, Palestine, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Réunion, Sicilia, Sinai, Socotra, South Australia, Spain, Trinidad-Tobago, Tunisia, Victoria, Western Australia, Western Sahara

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Palmweb - Palms of the World Online

  • J. Dransfield & N. Uhl & C. Asmussen & W.J. Baker & M. Harley & C. Lewis, Genera Palmarum. The evolution and classification of palms. 2008

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • F.T.A. 8: 102.
  • Sp. Pl. 1188 (1753)

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Becc. in Malesia 3: 345–416 (1890)
  • L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 496 (1754)
  • Sp. Pl.: 1188 (1753)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Feb 1, 1999 Etuge, M. [3572] Cameroon K000678185 No
Oct 14, 1996 Barrow, S.; Phromdej, C. [32] Thailand K:SPC-75993.000 No
Oct 14, 1996 Barrow, S.; Phuma, R. [20] Thailand K:SPC-75992.000 No
Oct 14, 1996 Barrow, S.; Phuma, R. [25] Thailand K:SPC-76399.000 No
Oct 14, 1996 Barrow, S.; Wongprasert, T. [3] Thailand K:SPC-76400.000 No
Mar 7, 1996 Hepper [5672] Yemen K000208688 No
Jul 4, 1979 Collenette, I.S. [858B] Saudi Arabia K000208687 No
Nov 2, 1978 Collenette, S. [173] Saudi Arabia K000208685 No
Oct 2, 1978 Collenette, S. [310] Saudi Arabia K000208684 No
Jan 1, 1919 McDonald [s.n.] India K000697808 Holotype Yes
Jan 1, 1919 McDonald [s.n.] India K000697809 Type Yes
Hepper; Wood, J.R.I. [6060] Yemen K000208718 No
Barrow, S.; Boydak, M. [39] Türkiye K:SPC-65056.000 No
Bourgeau, E. [1014] K000208727 Yes
Hepper [5725] Yemen K000208717 No
Asplund, E. [858] Spain K000208728 Yes
Barrow, S.; Boydak, M. [40] Türkiye K000208720 No
Collenette, I.S. [3829] Saudi Arabia K000208686 No
Gibbons, M.; Spanner, T. [s.n.10.95] India K000525859 Yes
McKee, H.S. [HM39605] K000707353 No
Thomas [8786] K000520376 No
Collenette, I.S. [2719] Saudi Arabia K000208671 No
Zona, S. [711] K:SPC-65063.000 No
Milne-Redhead, E. [4091] Zambia K:SPC-35187.000 No
Barrow, S.; Phuma, R. [26] Thailand K:SPC-65061.000 No
Boydak [s.n.] Türkiye K000208721 Yes
Thomas [8785] K000521956 No
Thomas [7384] K000521955 No
s.coll. [Cat. no. s.n.] K001132594 Unknown Type Material Yes
Barrow, S.; Boydak, M. [39] Türkiye K000208719 No

Sources

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Palmweb - Palms of the World Online

    • Palmweb 2011. Palmweb: Palms of the World Online. Published on the internet http://www.palmweb.org. Accessed on 21/04/2013
    • Content licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0