''Livistona jenkinsiana'' (Major Jenkins' fan palm) is a species of
fan palm in the family
Arecaceae
The Arecaceae is a family of perennial flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all commonly known as palms. Those having a tree-like form are called palm trees ...
.
Description
It is a
palm with large fan-shaped leaves on spiny petioles. It is very similar to
''L. speciosa'' in its leaves and the downward curving spines on the petioles of its leaves, but it is distinguished from this species by its fruit colour (leaden-blue vs turquoise-iridescent), by its fruit being wider than long vs longer than wide, and by the branching of its
infructescence which is to the third-order rather than the fourth.
Distribution
The species is native to
Bangladesh (
Chittagong
Chittagong ( /ˈtʃɪt əˌɡɒŋ/ ''chit-uh-gong''; ctg, চিটাং; bn, চিটাগং), officially Chattogram ( bn, চট্টগ্রাম), is the second-largest city in Bangladesh after Dhaka and third largest city in B ...
),
Myanmar
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...
, in India (
Arunachal Pradesh,
Assam,
Madhya Pradesh,
Meghalaya,
Nagaland,
Sikkim,
West Bengal),
Bhutan, China (
Yunnan) and
Thailand (northern and peninsular).
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References
External links
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jenkinsiana
Trees of Thailand
Trees of Bhutan
Taxa named by William Griffith
Plants described in 1845
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