Plant Details

Accepted name:: Roystonea oleracea (Jacq.) O.F.Cook [Arecaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
cabbage palm	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
palma kubis	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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Kew's taxonomic resources include 11 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Areca oleracea Jacq. Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist.: 278 (1763).
Oreodoxa oleracea (Jacq.) Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 3: 166 (1838).
Euterpe caribaea Spreng. Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 2: 140 (1825).
Gorgasia oleracea (Jacq.) O.F.Cook Natl. Hort. Mag. 18: 114 (1939), not validly publ.
Kentia oleracea (Jacq.) Seem. ex H.Wendl. in O.C.E.de Kerchove de Denterghem, Palmiers: 248 (1878), nom. nud.
Oreodoxa caribaea (Spreng.) Dammer & Urb. in I.Urban, Symb. Antill. 4: 129 (1903).
Oreodoxa regia var. jenmanii Waby J. Board Agric. Brit. Guiana 12: 51 (1919).
Roystonea caribaea (Spreng.) P.Wilson Bull. New York Bot. Gard. 8: 385 (1917).
Roystonea oleracea var. excelsior L.H.Bailey Gentes Herbarum 3: 369 (1935), nom. illeg.
Roystonea oleracea var. jenmanii (Waby) Zona Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 71: 24 (1996).
Roystonea venezuelana L.H.Bailey Gentes Herbarum 8: 124 (1949).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Areca oleracea L.	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Oreodoxa oleracea	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Roystonea oleracea	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Roystonea oleracea (Jacq.) O.F.Cook	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Roystonea oleracea (Jacq.) O.F.Cook.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

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