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Licuala distans (Licuala distans)

Description

A very attractive and elegant palm with a thinnish stem and a large, spreading crown of numerous deeply split leaves, each composed of an orbicular blade held nearly flat at the tip of a long spiny petiole.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum:

        • Class: Liliopsida

          • Order: Arecales

            • Family: Arecaceae

              • Genus: Licuala