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Arenga micrantha; photograph (c) chintan sheth, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) chintan sheth, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2026-04-13

Arenga micrantha C.F.Wei

Arecaceae · Tibet, East Himalaya

No habitat climate
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Summary

Arenga micrantha, also known as the Tibetan sugar palm, is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae, found in the cloud forests of southeastern Tibet, Bhutan, and Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, between 1400 and 2150 m. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Arenga micrantha", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 19 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 19 of the 19 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeTibet, East Himalaya · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker28.632, 94.971 · in the densest population, 13 records (68% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 19 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 13 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 4 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 19 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 19 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) chintan sheth, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).

Other Arenga 11 in the reference

Arenga australasica Arenga australasica Arenga palm Photo: CC BY, coenobitaArenga caudata Arenga caudata Arecaceae Photo: Public domain, Mmcknight4 Arenga disticha Arecaceae Arenga engleri Arenga engleri Formosan sugar palm Photo: CC BY, Yu-Huang Wang Arenga oblongifolia Arecaceae Arenga obtusifolia Lang kap Arenga pinnata Arenga pinnata Sugar palm Photo: CC BY, Ong Jyh Seng Arenga porphyrocarpa Arecaceae Arenga tremula Arenga tremula Dwarf sugar palm Photo: CC BY-SA, David J. StangArenga undulatifolia Arenga undulatifolia Arecaceae Photo: CC BY, Celestino Quintela SabarísArenga westerhoutii Arenga westerhoutii Arecaceae Photo: CC BY, Zac Peterson

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Arecaceae
Described by
C.F.Wei
Native to
Tibet, East Himalaya
Wild records
19 in range · 13 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2119 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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