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Internal ID UUID643fe30443a98019340563
Scientific name Medemia argun
Authority Württemb. ex H.Wendl.
First published in Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 39: 93 (1881)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Hyphaene argun Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 3(ed. 2): 227 (1845)
Medemia abiadensis H.Wendl. Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 39: 93 (1881)
Areca passalacquae Kunth Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) 8: 420 (1826)

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Language Common/alternative name
English argun palm
English nubian desert palm
Arabic مديم الأرجون
Chinese 阔叶棕

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World Flora Online wfo-0000239121
Tropicos 100220717
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:668220-1
The Plant List kew-123201
Open Tree Of Life 923881
NCBI Taxonomy 292649
IUCN Red List 30401
IPNI 668220-1
iNaturalist 365660
GBIF 2739123
Freebase /m/02w0mcx
EPPO MDMAR
EOL 1138402

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The Role of Home Gardens in Promoting Biodiversity and Food Security Korpelainen H Plants (Basel) 28-Jun-2023
PMCID:PMC10346420
doi:10.3390/plants12132473
PMID:37447034
Structural Elucidation and Antioxidant Activities of a Neutral Polysaccharide From Arecanut (Areca catechu L.) Ji X, Guo J, Pan F, Kuang F, Chen H, Guo X, Liu Y Front Nutr 07-Mar-2022
PMCID:PMC8948432
doi:10.3389/fnut.2022.853115
PMID:35340550
Tannins as Hemostasis Modulators Marcińczyk N, Gromotowicz-Popławska A, Tomczyk M, Chabielska E Front Pharmacol 13-Jan-2022
PMCID:PMC8793672
doi:10.3389/fphar.2021.806891
PMID:35095516
Fossil palm reading: using fruits to reveal the deep roots of palm diversity Matsunaga KK, Smith SY Am J Bot 23-Feb-2021
PMCID:PMC8048450
doi:10.1002/ajb2.1616
PMID:33624301
Oxidative Stress Biomarkers, Nut-Related Antioxidants, and Cardiovascular Disease Lorenzon dos Santos J, Schaan de Quadros A, Weschenfelder C, Bueno Garofallo S, Marcadenti A Nutrients 03-Mar-2020
PMCID:PMC7146201
doi:10.3390/nu12030682
PMID:32138220
ConR: An R package to assist large‐scale multispecies preliminary conservation assessments using distribution data Dauby G, Stévart T, Droissart V, Cosiaux A, Deblauwe V, Simo‐Droissart M, Sosef MS, Lowry PP II, Schatz GE, Gereau RE, Couvreur TL Ecol Evol 16-Dec-2017
PMCID:PMC5743656
doi:10.1002/ece3.3704
PMID:29299301
Vanishing Knowledge of Plant Species in the Wadi Allaqi Desert Area of Egypt Kandal HA, Yacoub HA, Gerkema MP, Swart JA Hum Ecol Interdiscip J 19-May-2016
PMCID:PMC5011154
doi:10.1007/s10745-016-9826-9
PMID:27642218
Global-change vulnerability of a key plant resource, the African palms Blach-Overgaard A, Balslev H, Dransfield J, Normand S, Svenning JC Sci Rep 27-Jul-2015
PMCID:PMC4515823
doi:10.1038/srep12611
PMID:26211732
Pericarp development and fruit structure in borassoid palms (Arecaceae–Coryphoideae–Borasseae) Romanov MS, Bobrov AV, Wijesundara DS, Romanova ES Ann Bot 10-Aug-2011
PMCID:PMC3219492
doi:10.1093/aob/mcr148
PMID:21831853
Raphides in Palm Embryos and their Systematic Distribution ZONA S Ann Bot 01-Apr-2004
PMCID:PMC4242339
doi:10.1093/aob/mch060
PMID:14980977

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