Arenga

Accepted species 24 Documented here 5 Family Arecaceae

Accepted species 24 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Arenga engleri Becc. 191 documented
Arenga wightii Griff. 14 documented
Arenga pinnata (Wurmb) Merr. 11 documented
Arenga ryukyuensis A.J.Hend. 8 documented
Arenga westerhoutii Griff. 5 documented
Arenga australasica (H.Wendl. & Drude) S.T.Blake ex H.E.Moore 4 below the evidence gate
Arenga brevipes Becc. 0 below the evidence gate
Arenga caudata (Lour.) H.E.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Arenga distincta Mogea 0 below the evidence gate
Arenga hastata (Becc.) Whitmore 0 below the evidence gate
Arenga hookeriana (Becc.) Whitmore 0 below the evidence gate
Arenga listeri Becc. 0 below the evidence gate
Arenga longicarpa C.F.Wei 0 below the evidence gate
Arenga longipes Mogea 0 below the evidence gate
Arenga micrantha C.F.Wei 0 below the evidence gate
Arenga mindorensis Becc. 0 below the evidence gate
Arenga obtusifolia Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Arenga plicata Mogea 0 below the evidence gate
Arenga porphyrocarpa (Blume ex Mart.) H.E.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Arenga retroflorescens H.E.Moore & Meijer 0 below the evidence gate
Arenga ryukyuense A.J.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Arenga talamauensis Mogea 0 below the evidence gate
Arenga tremula (Blanco) Becc. 0 below the evidence gate
Arenga undulatifolia Becc. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.