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Caryota cumingii Lodd. ex Mart.

Philippines fishtail palm; Fishtail palm

Arecaceae · Philippines · listed by its genus as a tropical foliage plant

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About the genus · Caryota

Caryota is a genus of palm trees. They are often known as fishtail palms because of the shape of their leaves.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Caryota", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a tropical foliage plant, listed under the genus Caryota in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “tree”, “wet tropical”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Caryota in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “tree”, “wet tropical”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 24 of the 26 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.

NativePhilippines · 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 marker14.625, 121.124 · in the densest population, 15 records (58% of those in range)

Kew's description“tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 26 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 25 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 2 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 24 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 26 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Other Caryota 9 in the reference

Caryota kiriwongensis Giant Caryota

Caryota maxima Arecaceae Photo: CC BY, Kai Squires

Caryota mitis Burmese fishtail palm Photo: CC BY, Rainer Breitling

Caryota monostachya Arecaceae Photo: CC BY, Eugene Popov

Caryota no Arecaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Dryas

Caryota obtusa Giant fishtail palm Photo: CC BY, Siddarth Machado

Caryota rumphiana Albert palm Photo: CC BY, Fabian Brambach

Caryota urens Jaggery palm Photo: CC BY, renjus box Caryota zebrina Arecaceae

Names & registers

Also known as Caryota blancoi; Caryota merrillii. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family

Arecaceae

Described by

Lodd. ex Mart.

Native to

Philippines

Wild records

26 in range · 25 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; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)

Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope

Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21

Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21

iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 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 nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21

Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21

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 10 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.