Corypha
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Corypha is a genus of six or seven species (the World Checklist (WCSP) does not recognise C. macropoda, but IUCN does) of palms
Arecaceae
Arecaceae or Palmae , are a family of flowering plants, the only family in the monocot order Arecales. There are roughly 202 currently known genera with around 2600 species, most of which are restricted to tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate climates...

 (family Arecaceae), native to India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, Malaysia, Indonesia
Indonesia
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, the Philippines
Philippines
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, New Guinea
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, and northeastern Australia
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 (Cape York Peninsula
Cape York Peninsula
Cape York Peninsula is a large remote peninsula located in Far North Queensland at the tip of the state of Queensland, Australia, the largest unspoilt wilderness in northern Australia and one of the last remaining wilderness areas on Earth...

, Queensland
Queensland
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). They are fan palms (Arecaceae tribe Corypheae), with the leaves
Leaf
A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant, as defined in botanical terms, and in particular in plant morphology. Foliage is a mass noun that refers to leaves as a feature of plants....

 with a long petiole terminating in a rounded fan of numerous leaflets.

They are all large palms, with large fan-shaped leaves with stout petioles ranging from 2-5 m in length. They reach heights of 20-40 m and with a trunk diameter of up to 1-2.5 metres. All the species are monocarpic and die after flowering. The genus is relatively slow growing and can take many years to form a trunk.

Species
  • Corypha griffithiana
  • Corypha lecomtei
  • Corypha macropoda
    Corypha macropoda
    Corypha macropoda is a species of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.It is found only in India.-Source:* Johnson, D. 1998. . Downloaded on 20 July 2007....

  • Corypha microclada
    Corypha microclada
    Corypha microclada is a species of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.It is found only in the Philippines.It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Madulid, D. 1998. . Downloaded on 20 July 2007....

  • Corypha taliera
    Corypha taliera
    Corypha taliera is a species of palm, native to Bengal region of South Asia.There is one last plant left of this extinct species, which is protected and grows in the scrub jungle on the Dhaka University campus, Bangladesh....

  • Corypha umbraculifera - Talipot Palm
  • Corypha utan
    Corypha utan
    Corypha utan , more commonly known as Gebang Palm, or Cabbage Palm is a large imposing fan palm that reaches up to 20 m high with palm fronds between 4m and 6 m across, growing in areas from India through to the Philippines, down to Australia's Cape York Peninsula.These palms only flower towards...

    (syn. C. elata, C. gebang) - Gebang Palm or Buri Palm or Cabbage Palm

Uses

The leaves are often used for thatching or can be woven into baskets, etc. Three kinds of fibres, namely buri
Buri
Buri may refer to:* Búri, a Norse god* Buri , an ancient Germanic people* Burs , also called the Buri / Buridavensi an ancient Dacian tribe* Buri, São Paulo, a city in Brazil* Buri Palm or Corypha, a genus of fan palm...

, raffia, and buntal, may be obtained from the plant.
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