✿Arecaceae · Nypa
Gulga / Mangrove Palm
Nypa fruticans
Palm (Cluster)outdoor
- Habit
- Palm (Cluster)
- Found in India
- West Bengal, Odisha
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Nypa fruticans
- Genus
- Nypa
- Family
- Arecaceae
- Habit
- Palm (Cluster)
- Distribution
- Coastal areas of Indo-Pacific region, Australia, Sri Lanka, Malay Archipelago
- Found in India
- West Bengal, Odisha
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf type
- Pinnately compound (feather-shaped fronds)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Gulga itself; the rest are typical of the Arecaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower arrangement
- CatkinrecordedA slim, often dangling spike of tiny, usually wind-pollinated flowers.“The flowers are a globular inflorescence of female flowers at the tip with catkin-like red or yellow male flowers on the lower branches.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Panicle
- Fruit
- Drupe
Characters marked “recorded” are for Gulga itself; the rest are typical of the Arecaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- गुलगा Gulga
- Kannada
- ನೀರತೆಂಗು Neerthengu
- Bengali
- গোলপাতা, golpatta
About Gulga
Mangrove Palm (Nypa fruticans) is a clustering palm in the Arecaceae family. In India it has been recorded in West Bengal and Odisha. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Uses
It is grown for parts that are eaten and stripped for fibre used in rope and matting.
Botanical family
Arecaceae
Palm family
Gulga belongs to the Arecaceae family.
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