Arecaceae

Raphia P.Beauv.

First published in Fl. Oware 1: 75 (1806)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Tropical & S. Africa, W. Indian Ocean, Central America to Brazil.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Benin, Brazil North, Burkina, Burundi, Cabinda, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Panamá, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Mauritius, Réunion, Seychelles, Trinidad-Tobago

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.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • F.T.A. 8: 104
  • Fl. Oware 1: 75 (1806)
  • Russell in Kew Bull. 19: 173-196 (1965).

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • A. Chev. in Rev. Bot. Appliq. 12: 93–104, 198–213 (1932)
  • Agric. Col. 4: 137–170 (1910)
  • Becc. in Webbia 3: 37 (1910)
  • Fl. Owar. 1: 75 (1809)
  • T.A. Russell in K.B. 19:173–196 (1965)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

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

  • Flora of West Tropical Africa

    • Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. 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 2026. 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