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Medemia is a genus with a single species, Medemia argun, a rare, robust fan palm from desert oases in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. It is not commonly grown, but it needs full sun, very dry air and a warm climate, and it tolerates drought once established.
Medemia argun is a rare species of the palm tree family (Arecaceae) native to Egypt and Sudan. It is the only species in the genus Medemia.
The palm's dried dates have been found in ancient Egyptian tombs.
Medemia argun is found only in oases inside of the Nubian Desert, in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. The global population is divided in several sub-populations, with the most important (>90%) part of the population occurring in northern Sudan. The global population of Medemia argun was estimated at 7,400 individuals in the middle of the 2000s. In Egypt, only 32 individuals were counted at Dungul Oases in 2007 (Ibrahim and Baker 2009). Its area of occupancy is restricted to 880 km².
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