| Name | Borassus flabellifer Linnaeus |
| Authorship | Linnaeus |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Borassus Linnaeus |
| Citation | 1 May 1753 Sp. Pl. 2: 1187 |
| Holdings | 1 Specimen held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Borassus flabellifer Linnaeus |
| Identification made in | 1942 (1) |