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The palm was described by Carl von Martius in 1845 with the name <em>H. argun <\/em>as a new species of the genus <em>Hyphaene <\/em>Gaertn. But given the peculiar characteristics of these plants, the German botanist Hermann Wendland created, in 1881, the genus <em>Medemia <\/em>with 2 species, currently considered synonyms. It was not found in Egypt until the early twentieth century, also in the Nubian Desert. They normally grow as isolated individuals or in small groups usually of no more than 7 or 8 plants. The fragility of the areas where this rare palm tree grows, and the local use of its leaves, threatens the survival of this species in the wild.","conservation":"Very rare and threatened species. In the <em>IUCN Red List of Threatened Species<\/em> it is listed at a global level as Critically Endangered (CR) (Johnson, D. 1998). 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