Areca
| Areca | ||||||||||||||
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| A. catechu (Betel nut palm) and about 50 more |
Areca is a genus of about 50 species of single-stemmed palmss in the family Arecaceae, found in humid tropical forests from Malaysia to the Solomon Islands.
The best-known member of the genus is A. catechu, the betel nut palm.