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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

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