Livistona

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Livistona
Livistona chinensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Liliopsida Order: Arecales Family: Arecaceae Subfamily: Coryphoideae Tribe: Corypheae Genus: Livistona R.Br.
Species
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Livistona is a genus of 28 species of palms (family Arecaceae), native to southern and southeastern 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.

Livistona species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Batrachedra arenosella (recorded on L. subglobosa) and Paysandisia archon.

Selected species

• Livistona alfredii
• Livistona australis - Australian Fan Palm^{[citation needed]} ( Cabbage Tree Palm in New South Wales )
• Livistona carinensis
• Livistona chinensis - Chinese Fan Palm
• Livistona decora
• Livistona drudei
• Livistona endauensis
• Livistona fulva
• Livistona humilis
• Livistona jenkinsiana
• Livistona mariae - Central Australian Fan Palm
• Livistona merrillii
• Livistona muelleri
• Livistona robinsoniana
• Livistona rotundifolia Anahaw (national leaf of the Philippines)
• Livistona saribus
• Livistona subglobosa
• Livistona tahanensis
• Livistona tonkinensis
• Livistona woodfordii