My PhD dissertation consists of a taxonomic revision of the palm tribe Caryoteae.
This group is composed of three genera (Arenga, Caryota and Wallichia) representing approximately 45 species.

These palms are restricted to Asia and Australasia. They grow from India to the Solomon Islands and North East Australia with the greatest diversity in Indochina, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Complete Generic Level Phylogenetic Analyses of Palms (Arecaceae) with Comparisons of Supertree and Supermatrix Approaches

William J. Baker^1,6, Vincent Savolainen^1,2, Conny B. Asmussen-Lange³, Mark W. Chase¹, John Dransfield¹, Félix Forest¹, Madeline M. Harley¹, Natalie W. Uhl⁴ and Mark Wilkinson⁵