Caryota rumphiana

Fishtail or Albert palm
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
(unranked):	Commelinids
Order:	Arecales
Family:	Arecaceae
Genus:	Caryota
Species:	C. rumphiana
Binomial name
	Caryota rumphiana; Mart.
Synonyms
	Caryota rumphiana var. moluccana Becc.; Caryota rumphiana var. papuana Becc.;

Caryota rumphiana, whose common names include the Fishtail or Albert palm, is a Caryota or fish tail palm. It is native to Philippines, Sulawesi, Maluku, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] Its leaves have a distinctive fishtail shape and its flowers have been described as mop-like. Unusually for a palm, it flowers once and then dies.

References

^ ^a ^b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ ars-grin retrieved 30 July 2009
^ Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
^ Takeuchi, W. (2005). Floristic notes from a holocene successional environment in Papuasia. Harvard Papers in Botany 10: 95-116.
^ Dowe, J.L. (2010). Australian palms: biogeography, ecology and systematics: 1-290. CSIRO Publishing.

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[qerewpjrfaw9efjsdfas-1] Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

[2] rs-grin retrieved 30 July 2009

[3] Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

[4] Takeuchi, W. (2005). Floristic notes from a holocene successional environment in Papuasia. Harvard Papers in Botany 10: 95-116.

[5] Dowe, J.L. (2010). Australian palms: biogeography, ecology and systematics: 1-290. CSIRO Publishing.

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