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| Distribution | Native to Queensland, Australia; widely cultivated and sometimes becoming naturalized.In the Hawaiian Islands,
naturalized on
Kaua`i, O`ahu, Maui, Hawai`i.
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Habit
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Trunk gray, up to 25-30 m tall.
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Leaves
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Leaves ca. 10, up to 2.5 m long, pinnae ca. 80 on each side, up to 80 cm long and 5 cm wide, whitish or ash-colored on lower surface with silver-grey scales but ramenta lacking. sheath green.
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Flowers
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Inflorescences up to 70 cm long, with pendulous rachillae to the fourth order; staminate flowers white or cream, 5-6 mm long, stamens 9-16, filaments not deflexed.
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Fruit
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Fruit red, 1-1.4 cm long, 0.8-1.1 cm in diameter.
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Chromosomes
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2n = 28, 32
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Contributor
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David Lorence & W. L. Wagner
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