''Livistona halongensis'' is a species of
palm first
collected in
Ha Long Bay,
Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...
, in 1999.
The species was described by
Tiên Hiêp Nguyên and
Ruth Kiew
Ruth Kiew (born 1946) is a British botanist. Kiew was awarded the David Fairchild Medal of the National Tropical Botanical Garden
The National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) is a Hawaii-based not-for-profit institution dedicated to tropical p ...
in 2000.
[ It is a fan palm.]
Description
''Livistona halongensis'' grows up to tall, with a stem diameter of about . The leaves measure up to long. The inflorescence
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...
bears yellow flowers. The fruit is green.[
]
Distribution and habitat
''Livistona halongensis'' is endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to Vietnam, where is it is confined to the islands of Hạ Long Bay, a UNESCO
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World Heritage Site
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. Its habitat is in crevices on the limestone islands.[
]
References
halongensis
Endemic flora of Vietnam
Plants described in 2000
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