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Taxon:  Arenga pinnata (Wurmb) Merr.



Summary
Genus:
Arenga
Family:
Arecaceae (alt. Palmae)
Subfamily:
Coryphoideae
Tribe:
Caryoteae
Nomen number:
3951
Place of publication:
Interpr. Herb. amboin. 119. 1917
Verified:
11/24/1986 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Saguerus pinnatus Wurmb

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
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Reference(s)
  1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009
  2. Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. Flora of Java. 1963-1968
  3. Chinese Academy of Sciences. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959-
  4. Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008
  5. Facciola, S. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. 1990
  6. Flach, M. & F. Rumawas, eds. 1996. Plants yielding non-seed carbohydrates. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 9:51.
  7. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
  8. Govaerts, R. & J. Dransfield. World checklist of palms. 2005
  9. Hanelt, P., ed. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 2001
  10. Li, H. L. et al., eds. Flora of Taiwan. 1975-1979
  11. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
  12. Merrill, E. D. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants. 1922-1926
  13. Miller, R. H. 1964. The versatile sugar palm. Principes 8:115-147.
  14. Moore, H. E., Jr. 1963. An annotated checklist of cultivated palms. Principes 7:127.
  15. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  16. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  17. Smith, A. C. Flora vitiensis nova. 1979-1991
  18. Westphal, E. & P. C. M. Jansen, eds. 1989. A selection. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- A:50.
  19. Whitmore, T. C. 1973. Palms of Malaya. 1973
  20. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994-
Common names
English
areng palm –
black-fiber palm –
gomuti palm –
Malay sago palm –
sugar palm –
Dutch
arengpalm –
arenpalm –
gomoetoepalm –
sagoeweerpalm –
suikerpalm –
French
palmier à sucre –
palmier areng –
palmier condiar –
German
echte Zuckerpalme –
Gomuti-Palme –
Molukken-Zuckerpalme –
Sagwire-Palme –
Zuckerpalme –
Portuguese
gomuteira –
Spanish
barú –
bary –
palma de azúcar –
Swedish
sockerpalm –
Transcribed Chinese
sha tang ye zi –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaMyanmar  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaThailand  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaVietnam  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaMalaysia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaPhilippines  
2Cultivated     
2CultivatedAsia-TemperateChinaChinaGuangxi 
2CultivatedAsia-TemperateChinaChinaHainan 
2CultivatedAsia-TemperateChinaChinaYunnan 
2CultivatedAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesia  
Native
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India
  • INDO-CHINA: Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
  • MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines
Cultivated

  • REGION:
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China [Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan]
Asia-Tropical
  • MALESIA: Indonesia
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Food additivesflavoring Flach, M. & F. Rumawas, eds. 1996. Plants yielding non-seed carbohydrates. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 9:51.
Human foodstarch Flach, M. & F. Rumawas, eds. 1996. Plants yielding non-seed carbohydrates. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 9:51.
Materialsfiber Flach, M. & F. Rumawas, eds. 1996. Plants yielding non-seed carbohydrates. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 9:51.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=3951. Accessed 15 December 2025.

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