Skip to main content

Pinang piji (Pinanga coronata)

Dlium Pinang piji (Pinanga coronata)

Pinang piji (Pinanga coronata) is a species of plant in the Arecaceae, small palm, clumping or solitary, stem erect, unbranched, 1-2 meters high, 1.5-7 cm in diameter, 4.5-12 cm in segments, 0 scars .5-1.2 cm, stem surface is green to brownish.

P. coronata has 4-7 leaves. Leaves including midrib 150-200 cm long; leaf midrib 35-80 cm, petiole 20-100 cm and rachis 90-180 cm. The leaves are 55 cm long, 9 cm wide and have 1-5 ribs.







Infrafoliar inflorescences, pendulous or upright, green when young, becoming yellow pink to red and very stiff at the base. Peduncle flat, 1-6.5 x 0.5-2 cm. Profilil 20-28 x 4.5-8 cm, pale yellow when fresh, light brown when dry. The pistillate flowers are creamy white.

Fruit ovoid, oval to oval, 11-20 mm, green to pink, remaining stigma red to brownish red. Epicarp is smooth, mesocarp is shiny, thin and fleshy. Endocarp with longitudinal fibers. Seeds correspond to fruit. This species grows in forests, cliffs and forms clumps spread over an elevation of 500-2000 meters.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
Subfamily: Arecoideae
Tribe: Areceae
Subtribe: Arecinae
Genus: Pinanga Blume in Bull. Sci. Phys. Nat. Néerl. 1: 65 (1838)
Species: Pinanga coronata (Blume) Blume in Rumphia 2: 83 (1839)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Areca coronata Blume in C.F.P.von Martius, Hist. Nat. Palm. 3: 179 (1838)
Ptychosperma coronatum (Blume) Miq. in Fl. Ned. Ind. 3: 24 (1855)
Seaforthia coronata (Blume) Mart. in Hist. Nat. Palm. 3(ed. 2): 185 (1845)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Areca costata (Blume) Kurz in J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 43: 200 (1874)
Areca oriziformis var. gracilis Giseke in Prael. Ord. Nat. Pl.: 80 (1792)
Pinanga coronata var. teijsmannii Scheff. in Natuurk. Tijdschr. Ned.-Indië 32: 181 (1872)
Pinanga costata Blume (1839)
Pinanga kuhlii Blume (1839)
Pinanga kuhlii var. alba Scheff. (1872)
Pinanga kuhlii var. subtristicha Becc. in Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. 42: 69 (1935)
Pinanga kuhlii var. sumatrana Scheff. (1872)
Pinanga noxa Blume (1839)
Pinanga sumatrana (Scheff.) H.Wendl. in Ann. Hort. Belge Étrangère 25: 60 (1875)
Ptychosperma album Teijsm. & Binn. in Natuurk. Tijdschr. Ned.-Indië 27: 26 (1864)
Ptychosperma costatum (Blume) Miq. (1855)
Ptychosperma kuhlii (Blume) Miq. (1855)
Ptychosperma noxa (Blume) Miq. (1855)
Seaforthia costata (Blume) Mart. in Hist. Nat. Palm. 3: 313 (1849)
Seaforthia kuhlii (Blume) Mart. (1845)
Seaforthia montana Blume ex Mart. in Hist. Nat. Palm. 3: 185 (1838)
Seaforthia reinwardtiana Mart. (1838)

PUBLICATIONS

Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds.) (2012). Records of the Hawaii biological survey for 2011. Part II: plants. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 113: 1-102.

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

Henderson, A. (2009). Palms of Southern Asia: 1-197. Princeton university press, Princeton and Oxford.

Meyer, J.-Y., Lavergne, C. & Hodel, D.R. (2008). Time bombs in gardens: invasive ornamental palms in tropical islands, with emphasis on French Polynesia (Pacific Ocean) and the Mascarenes (Indian Ocean). Palms; Journal of the International Palm Society 52: 23-35.

Watling, D. (2005). Palms of the Fiji Islands: 1-191. Environmental Consultants (Fiji) Ltd., Suva.

VERNACULAR NAME

Bali: Piji
English: Pinang Piji, Ivory Cane Palm
Indonesian: Pinang piji, Palem piji, Bingbin, Palem ungu
Java: Piji
Melayu: Palem piji, Pinang piji

Aryo Bandoro
Dlium TheDlium
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Dlium
Labels:

Popular Posts

Screw tree (Helicteres isora)

Screw tree ( Helicteres isora ) is a species of plant in the Malvaceae family. It is a shrub or small tree, up to 8 meters tall. It has gray bark and alternate leaves, up to 22 cm long and 17 cm wide, oval in shape, with serrated edges and hairs. The flowers are red or white and reach a total length of 5.5 cm. The fruit is green when unripe, brown or gray when dry, twisted, spiral-shaped, and pointed at the tip. The seeds are black or brown, shiny, and diagonal, triangular, or rectangular. TAXON Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Tracheophyta Subphylum: Angiospermae Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Malvales Family: Malvaceae Subfamily: Helicteroideae Tribe: Helictereae Genus: Helicteres Pluk. ex L. in Sp. Pl.: 963 (1753) Species: Helicteres isora L. in Sp. Pl.: 963 (1753) HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS Helicteres baruensis var. ovata DC. in Prodr. 1: 476 (1824) Helicteres chrysocalyx Miq. ex Mast. in J.D.Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 1: 365 (1874) Helicteres corylifolia Buch.-Ham. ex Dillwyn in Rev. Hortus Malab....
Read more

Wild durian (Cullenia exarillata)

Wild durian ( Cullenia exarillata ) is a species of plant in the Malvaceae, a tall tree with smooth, greyish-white bark, peeling on older trees, a straight trunk, horizontal branches and often with a series of knob-like tubercles for flower and fruit attachment. C. exarillata has young branches and the underside of the leaves is covered with golden brown peltate or shield-like scales. The leaves are single, alternate, glabrous, glossy green on the upper side and covered with silvery or orange peltate scales on the underside. Hermaphroditic flowers are tubular and also covered with golden brown scales, 4-5 cm long and cream or reddish brown in color. Flowers have no petals, formed of tubular bracteoles and tubular calyxes, 5-lobed. Fruit is round, 10-13 cm in diameter, covered with thorns and clustered along the branches. Many seeds, reddish brown, 4-5 cm long and 2-3 cm wide. The seeds are enclosed by a fleshy, whitish aril. The fruit splits open when ripe and dries to release the s...
Read more

Coromandel (Asystasia gangetica)

Coromandel ( Asystasia gangetica ) is a species of plants in Acanthaceae, perennials, vines and branching that are widely found on the edges of roads, shrubs and gardens, resistant to shade, used as fodder, especially cattle, goats and sheep, treatment, conservation of land and ornamental plants. A. gangetica has a height of 88-95 cm, rectangular-shaped stem, brownish green or purplish green, taproot and can emerge from branches. Petiole has a length of 0.5-6 cm. Ellipse-shaped leaves, unifoliate, green or dark green, arranged facing each other and do not have stipules. Leaves have a length of 8.5 cm, width 4.9 cm, area 69.42 cm3, length and width ratio is 1.8:1, heart-shaped base and taper front end, rough surface, flat edge, a main bone and 4 -6 lateral veins on each side. Coromandel produces flowers after 4 weeks to 2 months. Compound flowers, lined up on one side with a length of up to 25 cm. Flower stalks have a length of up to 3 mm. Trumpet type, white with a bottom stran...
Read more