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Elaeis

plant genus

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distribution

In palm: Distribution
…Chamaerops in Europe and Africa, Elaeis (oil palm) and Raphia (raffia palm, or jupati) in Africa and America, and Borassus (palmyra palm), Calamus (rattan palm), Hyphaene (doum palm), and Phoenix (date palm) in Africa and Asia. Numbers of individuals of a species may be few or many.
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economic importance

In palm: Economic importance
…for the oil palm (Elaeis), which is a plantation crop, oil has been extracted from wild specimens. The oil from the seeds of one species, Jessenia bataua, is physically and chemically much like olive oil, and the mesocarp pulp from the fruits of Jessenia and the closely related Oenocarpus…
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