Wallichia triandra

{{Short description|Species of palm}}

{{Speciesbox

|status = LR/lc

|status_system = IUCN2.3

|status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Johnson, D. |date=1998 |title=Wallichia triandra |volume=1998 |page=e.T38724A10145823 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T38724A10145823.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}

|taxon = Wallichia triandra

|authority = (Joseph) S.K. Basu

|synonyms =*Asraoa triandra J.Joseph

|synonyms_ref={{cite web|url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=250095755|title=Wallichia triandra|publisher=Flora of China|accessdate=April 12, 2013}}

|}}

Wallichia triandra is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae that is native to South Tibet in China and also to the neighboring Arunachal Pradesh region of India.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=214143 Kew World Checlist of Selected Plant Families]Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.Henderson, A. (2009). Palms of Southern Asia: 1-197. Princeton university press, Princeton and Oxford.

Description

The plant is {{convert|3|m}} tall and {{convert|3|-|5|cm}} wide while its rachis is {{convert|2|m}} in length. Its rachillae are {{convert|20|-|30|cm}} in length and the flowers are as big as {{convert|4|mm}}. Fruits are red and oblong.

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