Salacca

{{Short description|Genus of palms}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Salak (Salacca zalacca), 2015-05-17.jpg |image_caption = ''Salacca zalacca'' fruit |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Salacca |authority = Reinw. |synonyms_ref = <ref name=selubung/> |synonyms = *''Salakka'' Reinw. ex Blume *''Zalacca'' Rumph. ex Blume *''Lophospatha'' Burret }}

'''''Salacca''''' is a genus of about 20 species of palms native to Southeast Asia and the eastern Himalayas.<ref name=selubung>{{cite web|url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=181786|title=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|author=|date=|website=apps.kew.org|access-date=14 March 2018}}</ref><ref>Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.</ref> They are dioecious (with the exception of Salak Bali) and pollinated by Curculionidae beetles.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.11248/jsta.64.153|year=2020 |volume=64 |last1=MATSUDA |first1=Hiroshi |last2=HIGUCHI |first2=Hirokazu |last3=MIYAJI |first3=Naoki |last4=OKABE |first4=Masanori |title=Liquid Spray Pollination in Salak (''Salacca wallichiana'' C. Mart.) |journal=Tropical Agriculture and Development }}</ref>

They are very short-stemmed palms, with leaves up to 6–8 m long. The leaves have a spiny petiole; in most species they are pinnate with numerous leaflets, but some species, notably ''S. magnifica'', have undivided leaves. The fruit grow in clusters at the base of the plants, and are edible in many species, with a reddish-brown scaly skin covering a white pulp and one to two large inedible seeds. The Salak (''S. zalacca'') or snake fruit is the species most widely grown for its fruit; the firm white pulp has a slight acidic taste. The skin of the snakefruit has a unique texture not unlike that of a snake's skin, rough to the touch in one direction but smooth in the other.

==Species== [[File:Salacca wallichiana fruit.jpg|thumb|right|The fruit of the ''Salacca wallichiana'' are called ''Luk rakam'' (ลูกระกำ) in Thailand]] *''Salacca acehensis'' Zumaidar. - Aceh<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Zumaidar |first=Zumaidar- |last2=Chikmawati |first2=Tatik |last3=Hartana |first3=Alex |last4=Sobir |first4=Sobir |last5=Mogea |first5=Johanis Palar |last6=Borchsenius |first6=Finn |date=2014-02-18 |title=Salacca acehensis (Arecaceae), A New Species from Sumatra, Indonesia |url=https://www.biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.159.4.5 |journal=Phytotaxa |language=en |volume=159 |issue=4 |pages=287–290 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.159.4.5 |issn=1179-3163}}</ref> *''Salacca affinis'' Griff. - Borneo, Sumatra, Malaysia *''Salacca bakeriana'' J.Dransf. - Sarawak *''Salacca clemensiana'' Becc. - Borneo, Philippines *''Salacca dolicholepis'' Burret - Sabah *''Salacca dransfieldiana'' Mogea - Kalimantan *''Salacca flabellata'' Furtado - Malaysia *''Salacca glabrescens'' Griff. - Malaysia, Thailand *''Salacca graciliflora'' Mogea - Malaysia *''Salacca griffithii'' A.J.Hend. - Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand *''Salacca lophospatha'' J.Dransf. & Mogea - Sabah - apparently extinct *''Salacca magnifica'' Mogea - Sabah *''Salacca minuta'' Mogea - Malaysia *''Salacca multiflora'' Mogea - Malaysia *''Salacca ramosiana'' Mogea - Sabah, Philippines *''Salacca rupicola'' J.Dransf. - Sarawak *''Salacca sarawakensis'' Mogea - Sarawak *''Salacca secunda'' Griff. - Assam, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar *''Salacca stolonifera'' Hodel - Thailand *''Salacca sumatrana'' Becc. - Sumatra *''Salacca vermicularis'' Becc. - Borneo *''Salacca wallichiana'' Mart. - Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Sumatra *''Salacca zalacca'' (Gaertn.) Voss - Java, Sumatra; naturalized in Bali, Lombok, Timor, Malaysia, Maluku, Philippines, Sulawesi

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Category:Salacca Category:Arecaceae genera Category:Dioecious plants