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Areca catechu L. is an accepted name

This name is the accepted name of a species in the genus Areca (family Arecaceae).

The record derives from WCSP (data supplied on 2012-03-23 ) which reports it as an accepted name (record 14517) with original publication details: Sp. Pl. 1189 1753.

Full publication details for this name can be found in IPNI: http://ipni.org/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:664107-1.

Synonyms:

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied
Areca catechu var. alba Blume	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca catechu var. batanensis Becc.	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca catechu f. communis Becc.	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca catechu var. longicarpa Becc.	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca catechu var. nigra Giseke	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca catechu var. silvatica Becc.	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca cathechu Burm.f. [Spelling variant]	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca faufel Gaertn. [Illegitimate]	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca himalayana Griff. ex H.Wendl. [Invalid]	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca hortensis Lour. [Illegitimate]	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca macrocarpa Becc.	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca nigra Giseke ex H.Wendl. [Invalid]	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sublimia areca Comm. ex Mart. [Invalid]	Synonym		WCSP	2012-03-23

Earlier versions

This name was in version 1 of The Plant List, record kew-14517.

• this name record has not changed
• names related to this name have changed