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n. - A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees.

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  • Understory includes palms such as Arenga obtusifolia and rotan Calamus sp.
  • Vegetation of the Telanca Plateau and central lowlands is a more open secondary forest, dominated by palms, such as Arenga pinnata, Caryota mitis and Arenga...
  • Also characteristic are a variety of palms including Arenga saccharifera, Caryota, and Calamus spp.
  • The understory is dominated by two endemic species: the palm Arenga listeri and the tree-like Pandanus elatus.
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