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Internal ID UUID643feab775078244252606
Scientific name Raphia australis
Authority Oberm. & Strey
First published in Bothalia 10: 29 (1969)

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Language Common/alternative name
English giant palm
English kosi palm
English rafia
Afrikaans kosipalm
Arabic رافية جنوبية
ts milala
Chinese 南非酒椰
Chinese 澳洲象鼻棕

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  • Africa
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Mozambique
    • Southern Africa
      • Cape Provinces
      • Kwazulu-Natal

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000294894
Tropicos 100250596
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:669499-1
The Plant List kew-176699
Open Tree Of Life 3948753
NCBI Taxonomy 1237789
IUCN Red List 30359
IPNI 669499-1
iNaturalist 365973
GBIF 5293234
Freebase /m/02w0nms
EOL 1132028
USDA GRIN 30860
Wikipedia Raphia_australis

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All tidal wetlands are blue carbon ecosystems Adame MF, Kelleway J, Krauss KW, Lovelock CE, Adams JB, Trevathan-Tackett SM, Noe G, Jeffrey L, Ronan M, Zann M, Carnell PE, Iram N, Maher DT, Murdiyarso D, Sasmito S, Tran DB, Dargusch P, Kauffman JB, Brophy L Bioscience 18-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC11075650
doi:10.1093/biosci/biae007
PMID:38720908
Microstructural Surface Properties of Drifting Seeds—A Model for Non-Toxic Antifouling Solutions Clasen A, Kesel AB Biomimetics (Basel) 13-May-2019
PMCID:PMC6630564
doi:10.3390/biomimetics4020037
PMID:31105222

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