nipah

Unlike its brother palms -- the cocoa, the sago, the gamooty, and the areca -- the nipah is short, and more like a giant cactus in growth.

Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines Rounsevelle Wildman 1882

Two and a half hours later I tripped over a rise and looked down on the characteristic nipah-thatched huts and red and brown terra-cotta roofs of Javanese village homes.

Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2010

Two and a half hours later I tripped over a rise and looked down on the characteristic nipah-thatched huts and red and brown terra-cotta roofs of Javanese village homes.

Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2010

Two and a half hours later I tripped over a rise and looked down on the characteristic nipah-thatched huts and red and brown terra-cotta roofs of Javanese village homes.

Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2010

Two and a half hours later I tripped over a rise and looked down on the characteristic nipah-thatched huts and red and brown terra-cotta roofs of Javanese village homes.

Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2010

Two and a half hours later I tripped over a rise and looked down on the characteristic nipah-thatched huts and red and brown terra-cotta roofs of Javanese village homes.

Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2010

The tidal swamp subzone (0-1 m) comprises one land system, the Kajapah land system (KJP) consisting of inter-tidal swamps of mangrove and nipah palm.

Lorentz National Park, Indonesia 2008

These forests are intersected by narrow, muddy streams, suggestive of alligators, up which you can go in canoes if you lie down, and are content with the yet darker shade produced by the nipah, a species of stemless palm, of which the poorer natives make their houses, and whose magnificent fronds are often from twenty to twenty-two feet in length.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

Cambodia river, wearying somewhat of its nipah-fringed alluvial flats, and of the monotonous domestic economy of which we had so good a view, we reached Saigon, which has the wild ambition to propose to itself to be a second Singapore!

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

We are beyond the little territory of Malacca, but this bit of land was ceded to England after the “Malay disturbances” in 1875, and on it has been placed the Sempang police station, a four-roomed shelter, roofed with attap, a thatch made of the fronds of the nipah palm, supported on high posts — an idea perhaps borrowed from the mangrove — and reached by a ladder.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004