Livistona rotundifolia (Lam.) Mart.

Mehmud, Selim & Roy, Himu, 2021, Diversity and distribution of palms (Arecaceae) in Assam, India, Check List 17 (1), pp. 69-93 : 85

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15560/17.1.69

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5465273

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scientific name

Livistona rotundifolia (Lam.) Mart.
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Livistona rotundifolia (Lam.) Mart. View in CoL

Diagnostic characters. Stems solitary, erect, 25–30 m tall tree, 22–30 cm in diameter; trunk smooth and grey. Leaf costapalmate, 1.8–2.9 m long; petiole curved at the base with brown fibre, red, margin spiny; lamina ca 1 m long, leaflets 0.7–1 m long, apices bifid, ca 12 cm long, acute, glabrous. Inflorescence three branched, 1.8–2 m long; each branch with 6–7 partial inflorescences, 12– 26 cm long; rachilla 4–7 cm long; flowers yellow. Fruits round, red, ca 1 cm.

Flowering and fruiting. April to August.

Distribution. Throughout Assam.

Uses. Ornamental.

Material examined. USA • Hawaii, University of Hawaii Campus ; 19 Feb. 1962; V. J. Krajina leg.; NYBG 23195621 View Materials . INDIA • Assam, Kamrup Metro, Guwahati, Panbazar ; 26°11′10.9″N, 091°45′07.4″E; alt. 72 m; 05 Apr. 2018; S. Mehmud leg. GoogleMaps ; CH, ASSAM 96244 View Materials .

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Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

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University of the Witwatersrand

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Department of Botany, Swedish Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Arecales

Family

Arecaceae

Genus

Livistona

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