Arecaceae
Palmyra palm
Borassus aethiopum
- Family
- Arecaceae
- Genus
- Borassus
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Common names
By language (21)
- Afrikaans
- Afrikawaaierpalm
- Amharic
- ዘምባባ
- Arabic
- بوراس أثيوبي
- arz
- بوراس اثيوبى
- Bambara
- Sebe
- Bangla
- বোরাসাস এথিয়োপাম
- Chinese
- 非洲扇棕, 埃塞俄比亚糖棕, 桑比兰糖棕, 糖椰, 非洲扇椰子
- Czech
- Lontar etiopský
- dag
- Kpukpaliga
- din
- Agep
- English
- Palmyra palm, African fan palm, African Palmyra palm, Black-rum palm, Deleb palm, Sambirano palmyra palm
- Finnish
- Etiopianpalmyrapalmu
- French
- Borasse d'Éthiopie
- German
- Äthiopische Palmyrapalme
- Hausa
- Giginya
- Japanese
- ボラッスス・アエチオプム, アフリカオウギヤシ
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Delebpalme
- Persian
- نخل پالمیرای آفریقایی
- sg
- Nzä
- Swahili
- Mvumo wa Afrika
- Wolof
- Tiir
Synonyms
- Borassus aethiopum var. bagamojense Becc.
- Borassus aethiopum var. senegalense Becc.
- Borassus deleb Becc.
- Borassus flabellifer var. aethiopum (Mart.) Warb.
- Borassus sambiranensis Jum. & H.Perrier
Photos
Photo: Marco Schmidt [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Jon Paul Rodríguez, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
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Photo: agujaceratops, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Akouete, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Adam Kranz, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Akouete, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: avocat, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Sylvain Montagner, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.