| Monocotyledon | Literature for Livistona chinensis
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Arecaceae -- The Palm Family | Bibliography |
| Livistona chinensis | |
Common name(s): fan palm, Chinese fan palm, fountain palm |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Native to Ryukyu Islands, Bonin Islands, Volcano Islands, and islands off Kyushu, Japan, now widely cultivated in tropical areas worldwide.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Kaua`i, O`ahu, Maui. |
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| Habit |
Trunk up to 15 m or more tall. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves numerous, blade pale green, up to 1.5 m long, with a prominent undivided central area and numerous deeply bifid segments, their tips pendulous; petioles armed with stout prickles. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers pale yellow, in clusters of up to 6, inflorescences up to 1 m or more long, of several branches along a single main rachis, each 2-3 times divided into rachillae, bracts brown tomentose. |
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| Fruit |
Fruit bluish green to bright green, darker with age, ellipsoid to subglobose or pyriform, 1.5-2.6 cm long, 0.9-1.8 cm in diam., with single seed. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 36. |
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