Corypha utan
| Corypha utan | |
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| Corypha utan stand at Kowanyama, Queensland | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| (unranked): | Commelinids |
| Order: | Arecales |
| Family: | Arecaceae |
| Subfamily: | Coryphoideae |
| Tribe: | Corypheae |
| Genus: | Corypha |
| Species: | C. utan |
| Binomial name | |
| Corypha utan |
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Corypha utan (also known as Corypha elata), more commonly known as Gebang Palm, or Cabbage Palm is a large imposing fan palm that reaches up to 20 m high with palm fronds between 4m and 6 m across, growing in areas from India through to the Philippines, down to Australia's Cape York Peninsula[1].
These palms (like all Corypha) only flower towards the end of their lifetime, but when they do flower they send up a massive inflorescence up to 5m high, and with up to 1 million flowers [1].
Growing along watercourses, floodplains and grasslands, the Palm and Cycad Socieites of Australia write about the Corypha utan palms occurring in Cape York:
Corypha utan .. is undoubtedly one of the most imposing species in the Australian palm flora (with its massive pachycaul trunks and hapaxanthic flowering and fruiting extravaganza. [2]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Corypha utan Palm and Cycad Societies of Australia web page Accessed 20 June 2009
- ^ Corypha utan On Cape York Peninsula, Queensland Palm and Cycad Societies of Australia web page Accessed 20 June 2009
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