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Phoenix

Genus of plants

Species / taxontaxonQ27685

Also known as date palm

Scientific name: Phoenix
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1.Stated in Genera Plantarum
2.Stated in Species Plantarum. 1st Edition, Volume 2
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Rank: genus
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1.Stated in Genera Plantarum
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Parent taxon: Phoeniceae

Overview

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Phoenix is a genus of 14 species of palms, native to an area starting from the Canary Islands in the west, across northern and central Africa, to the extreme southeast of Europe (Crete), and continuing throughout southern Asia, from Anatolia east to southern China and Malaysia. The diverse habitats they occupy include swamps, deserts, and mangrove sea coasts. Most Phoenix species originate in semi-arid regions, but usually occur near high groundwater levels, rivers, or springs. The genus is unusual among members of subfamily Coryphoideae in having pinnate, rather than palmate leaves; tribe Caryoteae also have pinnate or bipinnate leaves. The palms were more numerous and widespread in the past than they are at present. Some Phoenix palms have become naturalised in other parts of the world; in particular, the date palm's long history of cultivation means that escaped plants in the past have long-since become ingrained into the native ecosystems of countries far from its original range in the Middle East.

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Taxon common name: date palm
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1.Stated in United States Department of Agriculture Plants DatabaseRetrieved 2016-06-07
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刺葵属
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1.Stated in Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 13(1)
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海枣属
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1.Stated in A new list of threatened woody species in China under future global change scenarios
2.Stated in Families and genera of Chinese angiosperms: a synoptic classification based on APG III
3.Stated in A dataset on inventory and geographical distributions of vascular plants in Beijing, China
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针葵属
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1.Stated in Families and genera of Chinese angiosperms: a synoptic classification based on APG III
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刺葵属
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1.Stated in Families and genera of Chinese angiosperms: a synoptic classification based on APG III
2.Stated in Species cataloging of the seed plants in Zhejiang, East China
3.Stated in eFlorasefloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=3&taxon_id=125080Retrieved 2024-10-13
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海棗屬
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1.Stated in Flora of Taiwan
2.Stated in Catalogue of Life in Taiwan
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Taxonomic type: date palm
Different from: Phoenix criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items

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