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Nipa palm or mangrove palm
Nypa fruticans
About
Nypa fruticans, commonly known as the nipa palm or mangrove palm, is a species of palm native to the coastlines and estuarine habitats of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the only palm considered adapted to the mangrove biome. The genus Nypa and the subfamily Nypoideae are monotypic taxa because this species is their only member.
- Family
- Arecaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Nypa fruticans
- Slug
- nypa-fruticans
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Arecaceae
- Genus
- Nypa
- Species
- fruticans
- Wikidata QID
- Q843726
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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