Livistona jenkinsiana


Livistona jenkinsiana is a species of fan palm in the family Arecaceae.

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, 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, Myanmar, in India, Bhutan, China and Thailand.