Manjekia Maturbongsii
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''Manjekia'' is a
monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...
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of palm for a
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of palm native to
Biak Biak is an island located in Cenderawasih Bay near the northern coast of Papua (province), Papua, an Indonesian province, and is just northwest of New Guinea. Biak is the largest island in its small archipelago, and has many atolls, reefs, and c ...
island, Indonesia, off the northwest coast of
New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea). It is a simplified version of ...
. The genus was proposed in 2014. Its sole species is ''Manjekia maturbongsii'', which was first described in 2012 as ''Adonidia maturbongsii''. The specific epithet honours Rudi Maturbongs for his contributions to the study of palms in Biak. In 2014, the original authors decided that it was sufficiently distinct to be transferred from ''
Adonidia ''Adonidia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Arecaceae, native to the Philippines and Borneo. History of the genus The genus was originally described in 1919. In 1957, it was transferred to the genus ''Veitchia''. In 2008, further ...
'' to its own genus, ''Manjekia''. The transfer has been accepted by sources such as
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{{Taxonbar, from=Q21399788, from2=Q52181807, from3=Q15726596 Monotypic Arecaceae genera Ptychospermatinae Biak–Numfoor rain forests