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Paupan fishtail palm (Ptychosperma burretianum)

Description

A very attractive, small to medium sized clustering palm, with slender stems to about 5m tall. It has fishtail shaped leaflets, and the emergent leaves are dark red.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum: Cycadophyta

        • Class: Liliopsida

          • Order: Arecales

            • Family: Arecaceae

              • Genus: Ptychosperma