Livistona
Sign in to savethumb|Livistona nitida, the Carnarvon fan palm, as seen from the Amphitheatre in [[Carnarvon National Park, Australia.]]
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderArecales
- FamilyArecaceae
Native toAssam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, Djibouti, East Himalaya, Hainan, Japan, Jawa, Laos
Observations recorded21,965
General: In New Guinea, Livistona species occur only in seasonal
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 110
- With media
- 87
- Family
- Arecaceae
- Collections
- US, A, MO, CAS, RSA, CM
- Recorded in
- Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, French Polynesia, Honduras, United States, Vietnam, Malaysia
Wikidata facts
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- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Livistona
- Commons category
- Livistona
- topic's main category
- Category:Livistona
- taxon common name
- اللِّيوِصْطُونَة
- Flora of the Hawaiian Islands URL
- naturalhistory2.si.edu/botany/hawaiianflora/genusdescr.cfm?genus=Livistona
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Etymology
- Distribution
- Species
- Ecology
- References
- External links
thumb|Livistona nitida, the Carnarvon fan palm, as seen from the Amphitheatre in [[Carnarvon National Park, Australia.]]
Livistona is a genus of palms, the botanical family Arecaceae, native to southeastern and eastern Asia, Australasia, and the Horn of Africa. They are fan palms, the leaves with an armed petiole terminating in a rounded, costapalmate fan of numerous leaflets.
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