Caryota rumphiana

Fishtail or Albert palm
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
Genus: Caryota
Species: C. rumphiana
Binomial name
Caryota rumphiana
Mart.
Synonyms[1]
  • Caryota rumphiana var. moluccana Becc.
  • Caryota rumphiana var. papuana Becc.

Caryota rumphiana, whose common names include the Fishtail or Albert palm, is a Caryota or fish tail palm. It is native to Philippines, Sulawesi, Maluku, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago.[1][2][3][4][5] Its leaves have a distinctive fishtail shape and its flowers have been described as mop-like. Unusually for a palm, it flowers once and then dies.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ars-grin retrieved 30 July 2009
  3. Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  4. Takeuchi, W. (2005). Floristic notes from a holocene successional environment in Papuasia. Harvard Papers in Botany 10: 95-116.
  5. Dowe, J.L. (2010). Australian palms: biogeography, ecology and systematics: 1-290. CSIRO Publishing.