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Raphia vinifera - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Ore, Ondo State, Nigeria; 6/2010 © Jörn Germer

Raphia vinifera - Infructescence - Click to enlarge!

Infructescence; Ore, Ondo State, Nigeria; 6/2010 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 1327
Date of entry: 15.06.2010
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: West African piassava palm

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Liliopsida (397)

      Order: Arecales (29)

        Family: Arecaceae (29)(family description)

          Genus: Raphia (1)

            Epithet: vinifera P. Beauv. (2)

vinifera => wine-bearing

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habit: tree

External links

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