Livistona jenkinsiana
Livistona jenkinsiana (Major Jenkins' fan palm) is a species of fan palm in the family Arecaceae.[4]
| Livistona jenkinsiana | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Arecales |
| Family: | Arecaceae |
| Genus: | Livistona |
| Species: | L. jenkinsiana |
| Binomial name | |
| Livistona jenkinsiana | |
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| Occurrence data from GBIF | |
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Description
A tall Livistona jenkensiana at Sangu Reserve Forest, Bangladesh
It is a palm with large fan-shaped leaves on spiny petioles. It is very similar to L. speciosa in its leaves and the downward curving spines on the petioles of its leaves, but it is distinguished from this species by its fruit colour (leaden-blue vs turquoise-iridescent), by its fruit being wider than long vs longer than wide, and by the branching of its infructescence which is to the third-order rather than the fourth.
Distribution
The species is native to Bangladesh (Chittagong), Myanmar, in India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, West Bengal), Bhutan, China (Yunnan) and Thailand (northern and peninsular).[3]
References
- Griffith, W. (1845). "The Palms of British East India - Livistona". Calcutta Journal of Natural History. 5: 334.
- IPNI: Livistona jenkinsiana, International Plant Name Index. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
- Govaerts, R et.al. (2019). Plants of the world online: Livistona jenkinsiana. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
- Dowe, John Leslie (2009). "A taxonomic account of Livistona R.Br. (Arecaceae)" (PDF). Gardens' Bulletin Singapore. 60: 247–249. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
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