Wallichia

Wallichia is a genus of seven species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae.

Wallichia
Wallichia densiflora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Arecales
Family:	Arecaceae
Subfamily:	Coryphoideae
Tribe:	Caryoteae
Genus:	Wallichia Roxb.
Type species
Wallichia caryotoides
Synonyms[1]
Harina Buch.-Ham. Wrightea Roxb. Asraoa J.Joseph

Species

The genus is distributed in the Eastern Himalayas, northern Indochina, and southern China.[1][2][3][4][5]

Image	Scientific name	Distribution
	Wallichia caryotoides Roxb.	Bangladesh, China: Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand
	Wallichia disticha T.Anderson	Bangladesh, Bhutan, India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, China: Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos
	Wallichia gracilis Becc.	China: Guangxi, Yunnan, Vietnam
	Wallichia lidiae A.J.Hend	Bago region of Myanmar
	Wallichia marianneae Hodel	Thailand
	Wallichia nana Griff	Bangladesh, Bhutan, India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam
	Wallichia oblongifolia Griff.	Himalayas of northern and eastern India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China: Yunnan
	Wallichia triandra (J.Joseph) S.K.Basu.	India: Arunachal Pradesh, Tibet

References

1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
3. Flora of China, Vol. 23 Page 152, 瓦理棕属 wa li zong shu, Wallichia Roxburgh, Pl. Coromandel. 3: 91. 1820.
4. Henderson, A. (2009). Palms of Southern Asia: 1-197. Princeton university press, Princeton and Oxford.
5. Barfod, A.S. & Dransfield, J. (2013). Flora of Thailand 11(3): 323-498. The Forest Herbarium, National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Bangkok.