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Licuala
grandis Wendl.
Synonym : Pritchardia grandis
(Wendl.) W.Bull
Family
: Arecaceae
Local Names
: Ruffled Fan palm
Flowering
and fruiting period:
Throughout the year
Distribution: Native of Pacific Islands
Habitat: Grown as ornamental plant
IUCN
status:
Data Deficient
Endemic: No
Uses: Ornamental
Key
Characters:
Solitary palm, up to 4 m in height with
persistent leaf bases just below the crown. Leaves palmate, dark green,
ascending and spreading in all directions; petiole slender, leaf circular in
appearance, but really more wide than long, not divided, stiff, plaited,
margins shallowly lobed. Inflorescence is interfoliar, arching outward from the
axis. Ripe fruits cherry red, globose.
