Areca mandacanii
Heatubun
Ngafa
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Description
A palm. The trunk is 15 m tall. It is 8-10 cm across. The internodes on the trunk are 13-30 cm long. They are dark green and shiny and the scars are white. There are 8 leaves in the crown. The leaves have leaflets along the stalk. The leaf sheath is tube shaped and 90 cm long. The leaves are 200-250 cm long. The fruit are 6-7 cm long by 4.2-4.5 cm wide. They have a disk shaped depression near the tip. The seeds are 2.8 cm long by 2.5 cm wide.
Edible Uses
The fruit are used as a masticatory (chewing preparation).
Distribution
It is a tropical plant. It grows between the swamp forest and the lowland rainforest on the Bird's Head Peninsula in Western New Guinea.
Where It Grows
Asia, Indonesia, Papua, SE Asia,
References (1)
- Heatubun, C. D. et al, 2012, A monograph of the betel nut palms (Areca: Arecaceae) of East Malesia. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2012, 168, 147–173
