Salacca
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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Salacca
| image = Page59.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = Salacca zalacca fruit
| regnum = Plantae
| divisio = Magnoliophyta
| classis = Liliopsida
| ordo = Arecales
| familia = Arecaceae
| genus = Salacca Reinw.
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
Salacca affinis
Salacca clemensiana
Salacca dolicholepis
Salacca dransfieldiana
Salacca flabellata
Salacca glabrescens
Salacca graciliflora
Salacca lophospatha
Salacca magnifica
Salacca minuta
Salacca multiflora
Salacca ramosiana
Salacca rupicola
Salacca sarawakensis
Salacca secunda
Salacca stolonifera
Salacca sumatrana
Salacca vermicularis
Salacca wallichiana
Salacca zalacca
}}
Salacca is a genus of 20 species of palms native to tropical southeastern Asia. They are very short-stemmed palms, with leaves up to 6-8 m long. The leaves have a spiny petiole; in most species they are pinnate with numerous leaflets, but some species, notably S. magnifica, have undivided leaves.
The fruit grow in clusters at the base of the plants, and are edible in many species, with a reddish-brown scaly skin covering a white pulp and one (rarely two) large inedible seeds. The Salak (S. zalacca) is the species most widely grown for the fruit.
