Corypha taliera Roxb. (1820:51)
Tali palm, Tara palm (used by Johnson, 1998b:41)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Taliera bengalensis Spreng. in Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 2: 18 (1825); Taliera tali Mart. ex Blume in J.J.Roemer & J.A.Schultes, Syst. Veg., ed. 15[bis]. 7: 1306 (1830); Corypha martiana Becc. ex Hook.f. in Fl. Brit. India 6: 429 (1892), nom. illeg.; Corypha careyana Becc. in Webbia 5: 7 (1921)
Conservation Status
Last wild record: 1979 (Johnson, 1998)
Possibly rediscovered in the wild in 2001 (Khan et al., 2001)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct in the Wild
Distribution
Bangladesh, India & Myanmar
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Roxburgh, W. (1819). Plants of the coast of Coromandel, 3: 51-52.. t. 255. 256.
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http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-48255
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corypha_taliera