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Bentinckia nicobarica
In Singapore: Bentinck Palm, Nicobar Palm, 本亭琪亚棕 (Grown in Singapore)
Bentinckia nicobarica is a tall, slender solitary palm native to lowland tropical rainforest in the Nicobar and southern Andaman Islands, now endangered in the wild. It is a rainforest understorey to canopy palm that needs warm, humid, shaded or filtered conditions and is rarely grown outside its native range.
Bentinckia nicobarica is a species of flowering plant in the palm family Arecaceae. It is native to lowland tropical forests of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal, where it occurs mainly in the Nicobar Islands and in parts of the southern Andaman Islands. Owing to its restricted range, small and fragmented populations and continuing habitat loss it is assessed as an Endangered species on the IUCN Red List.
The species is sometimes known in English as the Nicobar palm.
Bentinckia nicobarica is native to the Nicobar and southern Andaman Islands in the eastern Indian Ocean. Floristic and conservation studies treat it as restricted chiefly to the Nicobar group, where it has been recorded from islands including Great Nicobar, Katchal, Nancowry, Camorta, Trinkat and neighbouring small islands. Field observations and herbarium records also document populations in parts of the South Andaman district, and recent botanical treatments list the species as native from the South Andaman Islands to the Nicobar Islands.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bentinckia nicobarica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
