Arenga hastata (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Arenga hastata (Becc.) Whitmore

Protologue: Principes 14: 124 (1970).

Synonyms

Didymosperma hastatum Becc. (1889).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia.

Uses

A root decoction is administered to treat fever, internally for adults and in a bath for children. The roasted palm heart is eaten as a cure for loss of appetite.

Observations

An erect dwarf palm up to 2 m tall, growing in clumps, not dying after flowering; leaves with about 10 leaf-segments up to 20 cm × 7.5 cm; inflorescence a simple spike c. 17.5 cm long, on a peduncle about as long, bisexual, developing from the base of the plant towards the apex; male flowers with oblong petal lobes c. 2.5 mm long and about 15 stamens. A. hastata occurs in lowland forest, and is rather uncommon.

Selected sources

121, 220, 789.

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Authors

Sri Endreswari