Livistona concinna (Livistona concinna)
Description
Livistona concinna is a palm, with a grey trunk to 30m tall. The trunk is 24-35cm in diameter at breast height, expanding to 100cm in diameter at the base. The internodes (bands on the trunk) are 2-20cm wide. There are 50-65 leaves forming a globose to hemispherical crown. The green, hairless petiole (leaf stalk) is 1.2-3.0m long and 5-11cm wide at the base, narrowing to about 2.8cm wide at the tip. The leaf stalk is triangular in cross-section and has solitary, symmetric, 3-5mm long black spines congested at the base end. The leaves are hairless, glossy, non-waxy and mid-green in colour on the upper surface and lighter green on the underside. They are 1.5-1.6m long, about 2m wide and folded. Each leaf consists of 60-78 segments, which are free for about 60% of their length, with the tips hanging downwards. The segments mid-way along the stem are 2.6-4cm wide.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum:
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Arecales
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Family: Arecaceae
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Genus: Livistona
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