Livistona
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| Livistona | |
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| Livistona chinensis | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| (unranked): | Commelinids |
| Order: | Arecales |
| Family: | Arecaceae |
| Subfamily: | Coryphoideae |
| Tribe: | Corypheae |
| Subtribe: | Livistoninae |
| Genus: | Livistona R.Br.[1] |
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Saribus Blume |
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Livistona is a genus of 36 species of palms (family Arecaceae), native to southern and southeastern Asia, Australasia, and the Horn of Africa. They are fan palms, the leaves with an armed petiole terminating in a rounded, costapalmate fan of numerous leaflets.
Livistona species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Batrachedra arenosella (recorded on L. subglobosa) and Paysandisia archon.
Anáhaw (L. rotundifolia) is the unofficial national leaf of the Philippines, while Kho (L. speciosa) is the tree of Khao Kho District in Thailand.
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[edit] Species
[edit] Formerly placed here
- Pritchardia gaudichaudii (Mart.) H.Wendl. (as L. gaudichaudii Mart.)
- Pritchardia martii (Gaudich.) H.Wendl. (as L. martii Gaudich.)[2]
- Saribus rotundifolius (Lam.) Mart. – Anáhaw (as L. rotundifolia)
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Genus: Livistona R. Br.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2004-10-15. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?6911. Retrieved 2011-04-05.
- ^ a b "GRIN Species Records of Livistona". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?6911. Retrieved 2011-04-05.
[edit] External links
Media related to Livistona at Wikimedia Commons 
Data related to Livistona at Wikispecies
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