{{Short description|Genus of palms}} {{hatnote|''Wallichia'' as described by A. P. de Candolle is now ''Eriolaena''.}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Gardenology.org-IMG 1025 rbgs10dec.jpg |image_caption = ''Wallichia densiflora'' |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Wallichia |authority = Roxb. |synonyms_ref = <ref name=yeti/> |synonyms = * ''Harina'' <small>Buch.-Ham.</small> * ''Wrightea'' <small>Roxb.</small> * ''Asraoa'' <small>J.Joseph</small> |type_species =''Wallichia caryotoides'' }}
'''''Wallichia''''' is a genus of eight species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae.<ref name=POWO_31556-1>{{Cite POWO|title=''Wallichia'' Roxb..|id=31556-1|access-date=2024-04-21|mode=cs1}}</ref> In 2016, it was proposed that its species should be included within the genus ''Arenga'',<ref name="BeyondGP2">{{Cite journal|last=Baker|first=William J.|last2=Dransfield|first2=John|date=2016|title=Beyond Genera Palmarum: progress and prospects in palm systematics|journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society|language=en|volume=182|issue=2|pages=207–233|doi=10.1111/boj.12401|doi-access=free}}</ref> but {{As of|2024|April|lc=yes}} this was not accepted by Plants of the World Online.<ref name=POWO_31556-1/>
==Species== The genus is distributed in the Eastern Himalayas, northern Indochina, and southern China.<ref name=yeti>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=214124 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref><ref>Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.</ref><ref>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=134740 Flora of China, Vol. 23 Page 152, <big>瓦理棕属</big> wa li zong shu, ''Wallichia'' Roxburgh, Pl. Coromandel. 3: 91. 1820. ]</ref><ref>Henderson, A. (2009). Palms of Southern Asia: 1-197. Princeton university press, Princeton and Oxford.</ref><ref>Barfod, A.S. & Dransfield, J. (2013). Flora of Thailand 11(3): 323-498. The Forest Herbarium, National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Bangkok.</ref> {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !!Distribution |- | ||''Wallichia caryotoides'' <small>Roxb.</small> ||Bangladesh, China: Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand |- |120px ||''Wallichia disticha'' <small>T.Anderson</small> || Bangladesh, Bhutan, India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, China: Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos |- | ||''Wallichia gracilis'' <small>Becc.</small> ||China: Guangxi, Yunnan, Vietnam |- | ||''Wallichia lidiae'' <small>A.J.Hend</small> ||Bago region of Myanmar |- | ||''Wallichia marianneae'' <small>Hodel</small> ||Thailand |- | ||''Wallichia nana'' <small>Griff</small> ||Bangladesh, Bhutan, India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam |- |120px ||''Wallichia oblongifolia'' <small>Griff.</small>||Himalayas of northern and eastern India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China: Yunnan |- | ||''Wallichia triandra'' <small>(J.Joseph) S.K.Basu.</small> ||India: Arunachal Pradesh, Tibet |- |}
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