Talipot palm

Talipot palm
	Talipot palm flowering at Kerala, India
Conservation status
	; Data Deficient (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Arecales
Family:	Arecaceae
Genus:	Corypha
Species:	C. umbraculifera
Binomial name
	Corypha umbraculifera; L.
Synonyms
	Bessia sanguinolenta Raf.; Corypha guineensis L.;

Corypha umbraculifera, the talipot palm, is a species of palm native to eastern and southern India and Sri Lanka. It is also in Cambodia, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand and the Andaman Islands.^[2]

It is one of the largest palms in the world. Individuals have reached up to 25 m (82 ft) with stems up to 1.3 m (4.25 ft) in diameter.^[3] It is a fan palm (Arecaceae tribe Corypheae), with large leaves up to 5 m (16 ft) in diameter, with a leaf stem up to 4 m (13 ft), and up to 130 leaflets.

The talipot palm bears the largest inflorescence of any plant, 6-8 m (20-26 ft) long, consisting of one to several million small flowers borne on a branched stalk at the top of the trunk.^[4] The talipot palm flowers only once,^[5] when it is 30 to 80 years old. It takes about a year for the fruit to mature, producing thousands of round, yellow-green fruit 3-4 cm (1.2-1.6 in) in diameter, each containing a single seed. The plant dies after fruiting.^[6]^[7]

References

↑ "The Plant List Corypha umbraculifera". Archived from the original on 2018-10-04. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Corypha umbraculifera^{[permanent dead link]}
↑ "Dominica Botanic Gardens". Archived from the original on 2007-02-18. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
↑ the titan arum, Amorphophallus titanum, from the family Araceae, has the largest unbranched inflorescence, and the species Rafflesia arnoldii has the world's largest single flower.
↑ is 'monocarpic'
↑ Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel. 1938. Sylva Telluriana. Mantis Synopt. New genera and species of trees and shrubs of North America p 13, Bessia sanguinolenta
↑ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 1187, Corypha umbraculifera

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[1] "The Plant List Corypha umbraculifera". Archived from the original on 2018-10-04. Retrieved 2018-10-10.

[2] Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Corypha umbraculifera^{[permanent dead link]}

[3] "Dominica Botanic Gardens". Archived from the original on 2007-02-18. Retrieved 2015-04-25.

[4] the titan arum, Amorphophallus titanum, from the family Araceae, has the largest unbranched inflorescence, and the species Rafflesia arnoldii has the world's largest single flower.

[5] s 'monocarpic'

[6] Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel. 1938. Sylva Telluriana. Mantis Synopt. New genera and species of trees and shrubs of North America p 13, Bessia sanguinolenta

[7] Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 1187, Corypha umbraculifera

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