Salacca

Salacca
	Salacca zalacca fruit
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Arecales
Family:	Arecaceae
Subfamily:	Calamoideae
Tribe:	Calameae
Genus:	Salacca; Reinw.
Synonyms
	Salakka Reinw. ex Blume; Zalacca Rumph. ex Blume; Lophospatha Burret;

Salacca is a genus of about 20 species of palms native to Southeast Asia and the eastern Himalayas.^[1]^[2] They are dioecious (with the exception of Salak Bali) and pollinated by Curculionidae beetles.^[3]

They are very short-stemmed palms, with leaves up to 6–8 m long. The leaves have a spiny petiole; in most species they are pinnate with numerous leaflets, but some species, notably S. magnifica, have undivided leaves. The fruit grow in clusters at the base of the plants, and are edible in many species, with a reddish-brown scaly skin covering a white pulp and one to two large inedible seeds. The Salak (S. zalacca) or snake fruit is the species most widely grown for its fruit; the firm white pulp has a slight acidic taste. The skin of the snakefruit has a unique texture not unlike that of a snake's skin, rough to the touch in one direction but smooth in the other.

Species

The fruit of the *Salacca wallichiana* are called *Luk rakam* (ลูกระกำ) in Thailand

Salacca acehensis Chikmawati. - Aceh
Salacca affinis Griff. - Borneo, Sumatra, Malaysia
Salacca bakeriana J.Dransf. - Sarawak
Salacca clemensiana Becc. - Borneo, Philippines
Salacca dolicholepis Burret - Sabah
Salacca dransfieldiana Mogea - Kalimantan
Salacca flabellata Furtado - Malaysia
Salacca glabrescens Griff. - Malaysia, Thailand
Salacca graciliflora Mogea - Malaysia
Salacca griffithii A.J.Hend. - Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand
Salacca lophospatha J.Dransf. & Mogea - Sabah - apparently extinct
Salacca magnifica Mogea - Sabah
Salacca minuta Mogea - Malaysia
Salacca multiflora Mogea - Malaysia
Salacca ramosiana Mogea - Sabah, Philippines
Salacca rupicola J.Dransf. - Sarawak
Salacca sarawakensis Mogea - Sarawak
Salacca secunda Griff. - Assam, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar
Salacca stolonifera Hodel - Thailand
Salacca sumatrana Becc. - Sumatra
Salacca vermicularis Becc. - Borneo
Salacca wallichiana Mart. - Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Sumatra
Salacca zalacca (Gaertn.) Voss - Java, Sumatra; naturalized in Bali, Lombok, Timor, Malaysia, Maluku, Philippines, Sulawesi

References

^ ^a ^b "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". apps.kew.org. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
^ Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
^ MATSUDA, Hiroshi; HIGUCHI, Hirokazu; MIYAJI, Naoki; OKABE, Masanori (2020). "Liquid Spray Pollination in Salak (Salacca wallichiana C. Mart.)". Tropical Agriculture and Development. 64. doi:10.11248/jsta.64.153.

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[selubung-1] "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". apps.kew.org. Retrieved 14 March 2018.

[2] Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

[3] MATSUDA, Hiroshi; HIGUCHI, Hirokazu; MIYAJI, Naoki; OKABE, Masanori (2020). "Liquid Spray Pollination in Salak (Salacca wallichiana C. Mart.)". Tropical Agriculture and Development. 64. doi:10.11248/jsta.64.153.

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