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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Elaeis
|accepted_authority=Jacquin
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Selectarum Stirpium Americanarum Historia...
|place=280. 1763
|year=1763
}}
|common_names=Oil palm
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Alfonsia
|authority=Kunth
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Corozo
|authority=Jacquin ex Giseke
}}
|hierarchy=Arecaceae;Arecaceae subfam. Arecoideae;Arecaceae tribe Cocoeae;Arecaceae (tribe Cocoeae) subtribe Elaeidinae;Elaeis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Arecaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Arecaceae subfam. Arecoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Arecaceae tribe Cocoeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Arecaceae (tribe Cocoeae) subtribe Elaeidinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Elaeis]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek elaia, olive, in reference to the oily fruits
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 121
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>solitary, erect, robust, covered with persistent leaf bases or bare, unarmed. <b>Leaves</b>: crownshaft absent; petiole margins armed with lignified, indurate bases of midveins persisting as spines after blade erodes; blade pinnate, unarmed; plication reduplicate; segments regularly arranged in multiple planes [in 1 plane], apices acute to 2-cleft. <b>Inflorescences</b> within crown of leaves, densely paniculate, with 1 order of branching, either staminate or pistillate, partially obscured by leaf bases; peduncle short; prophyll short; peduncular bract woody, splitting abaxially; rachillae thick, apices stiff, sharp. <b>Flowers</b> unisexual, sessile, borne singly along rachillae. <b>Staminate</b> flowers in pits in rachillae; sepals 3, free; petals 3, free, valvate, leathery; stamens 6, filaments briefly connate; anthers rectangular; pistillode with 3 minute lobes. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: sepals 3, imbricate, free; petals 3, imbricate, free; staminodial ring bearing 6 short points; pistil s1; ovules 3; styles indistinct; stigmas 3. <b>Fruits</b> drupes, ovoid; exocarp orange-yellow and black, thin; mesocarp fleshy, oily; endocarp thick, bony, with 3 apical germination pores. <b>Seeds</b> spheroid; endosperm homogeneous; embryo subapical; eophyll undivided, lanceolate.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tropics;Central America;South America;Africa.
|discussion=<p><i>Elaeis guineensis</i>, the African oil palm, is widespread in wet tropical Africa. It is now cultivated throughout the tropics, where it is the most important perennial oil crop, the source of both palm oil and palm kernel oil.</p><!--
--><p>Species 2 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Elaeis
|author=
|authority=Jacquin
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=Alfonsia;Corozo
|basionyms=
|family=Arecaceae
|distribution=Tropics;Central America;South America;Africa.
|reference=None
|publication title=Selectarum Stirpium Americanarum Historia...
|publication year=1763
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V22/V22_180.xml
|subfamily=Arecaceae subfam. Arecoideae
|tribe=Arecaceae tribe Cocoeae
|subtribe=Arecaceae (tribe Cocoeae) subtribe Elaeidinae
|genus=Elaeis
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