Caryoteae

{{short description|Tribe of plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Caryota gigs at Huntington Botanical Gardens.jpg

|image_caption = Caryota gigas at the Huntington Library

|taxon = Caryoteae

|authority = Scheff.

|type_genus = Caryota

|type_genus_authority = L.

|subdivision_ranks = Genera

|subdivision = Arenga Labill.

Caryota L.

Wallichia Roxb.

}}

Caryoteae is a tribe within the palm family Arecaceae,{{Cite journal|last1=Baker|first1=William J.|last2=Dransfield|first2=John|date=2016|title=Beyond Genera Palmarum: progress and prospects in palm systematics|journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society|language=en|volume=182|issue=2|pages=207–233|doi=10.1111/boj.12401|doi-access=free}}{{cite book|title=Genera Palmarum: The Evolution and Classification of Palms|first1=John|last1=Dransfield|first2=Natalie W.|last2=Uhl|first3=Conny B.|last3=Asmussen|first4=William J.|last4=Baker|first5=Madeline M.|last5=Harley|first6=Carl E.|last6=Lewis|year=2008|publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|isbn=978-1-84246-182-2}} distributed across Southeast Asia, from southern India and Sri Lanka east to Vanuatu and northernmost Queensland, Australia. It was historically classified under the subfamily Arecoideae due to its inflorescences, which resemble those of the tribe Iriarteeae, and its flowers arranged in triads (with two male flowers and one central female flower), a common trait in Arecoideae.{{Cite book|title=Genera Palmarum: a classification of palms based on the work of Harold E. Moore Jr.|last1=Uhl|first1=Natalie W.|last2=Dransfield|first2=John|publisher=The L. H. Bailey Hortorium and the International Palm Society|year=1987|isbn=9780935868302|location=Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A.}} However, phylogenetic studies based on DNA repeatedly link Caryoteae to subfamily Coryphoideae. Caryoteae do have leaves with induplicate folds, a feature found in most Coryphoid palms, but unlike most Coryphoideae, the leaves are pinnate (Arenga, Wallichia) or bipinnate (Caryota).{{Cite journal|last1=Dransfield|first1=John|last2=Uhl|first2=Natalie W.|last3=Asmussen|first3=Conny B.|last4=Baker|first4=William J.|last5=Harley|first5=Madeline M.|last6=Lewis|first6=Carl E.|date=2005|title=A new phylogenetic classification of the palm family, Arecaceae|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/215898364|journal=Kew Bulletin|volume=60|pages=559–569|via=ResearchGate}}{{Cite book|title=Genera Palmarum: The Evolution and Classification of Palms|last1=Dransfield|first1=John|last2=Uhl|first2=Natalie W.|last3=Asmussen|first3=Conny B.|last4=Baker|first4=William J.|last5=Harley|first5=Madeline M.|last6=Lewis|first6=Carl E.|publisher=International Palm Society|year=2014|isbn=978-1842461822}} Phoenix is the only other Coryphoid genus with induplicate, pinnate leaves.