Common names:

• traveler's-palm  (Source: Websters Dict) - English
• traveler's-tree  (Source: Websters Dict) - English
• arbre du voyageur  (Source: Zander Ency) - French
• ravenale   - French
• baum der Reisenden  (Source: Zander Ency) - German
• ravinala   - Malagasy
• palma de viajero  (Source: Trop Flow Pl) - Spanish
• de resandes träd  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

• Environmental: ornamental (fide Dict Gard; Zander ed13; Invasive Pl Spec)
• Weed: ()

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Madagascar


Cultivated (also cult.)

Naturalized

Africa

• WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Mauritius, Reunion

References:

1. Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)
2. PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). (PROTA4U)
3. Abbiw, D. K. Useful plants of Ghana. 1990 (Use Pl Ghana)
4. Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
5. Ansel, J.-L. 2006. L'arbre du voyageur in Les Saveurs des arbres 14.
6. Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. Flores des Mascareignes. (F Mascar)
7. Dransfield, J. & H. Beentje The palms of Madagascar. 1995 (Palms Madag)
8. Encke, F. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. 1984 (Zander ed13)
9. Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008 (Zander Ency)
10. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 (Dict Gard)
11. Llamas, K. A. Tropical flowering plants: a guide to identification and cultivation. 2003 (Trop Flow Pl)
12. Personal Care Products Council International Nomenclature Cosmetic Ingredient (INCI)
13. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). (Pl Names)
14. Weber, E. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. 2003 (Invasive Pl Spec)

Images:

• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image