''Borassus madagascariensis'' is a species in the palm family

Arecales Arecales is an order of flowering plants. The order has been widely recognised only for the past few decades; until then, the accepted name for the order including these plants was Principes. Taxonomy The APG IV system of 2016 places Dasypogo ...

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

.Jumelle, Henri Lucien & Perrier de la Bâthie, Joseph Marie Henry Alfred. 1907. Annales de l'Institut Botanico-Geologique Colonial de Marseille, sér. 2 5: 389, f. 2–4. ''Borassus flabellifer'' var. ''madagascariensis'' The palm is native to western Madagascar, where it is found along lowland watercourses in the

dry forests The tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forest is a habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature and is located at tropical and subtropical latitudes. Though these forests occur in climates that are warm year-round, and may receive ...

below 100 meters elevation. It has a fragmented distribution and is known from only five locations. The palm heart and newly germinated seedlings are edible, and an alcoholic drink is produced from the fruit.Grubben, G.J.H. & Denton, O.A. (2004) Plant Resources of Tropical Africa 2. Vegetables. PROTA Foundation, Wageningen; Backhuys, Leiden; CTA, Wageningen.

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madagascariensis Vulnerable plants Plants described in 1913 Plants described in 1907 Endemic flora of Madagascar Flora of the Madagascar dry deciduous forests Edible plants Taxa named by Henri Lucien Jumelle Taxa named by Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie Taxa named by Wenceslas Bojer {{Palm-stub