Kingdom Plantae Family Arecaceae Tribe Corypheae Scientific name Corypha utan | Order Arecales Subfamily Coryphoideae Genus Corypha Rank Species | |
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Similar Corypha umbraculifera, Vachellia leucophloea, Corypha taliera, Oncosperma, Corypha lecomtei | ||
Corypha utan with fruit indian river county
Corypha utan, 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 the Assam region of India through Indochina, Malaysia, and Indonesia to the Philippines and New Guinea, south to Australia's Cape York Peninsula.
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These palms (like all Corypha) flower only towards the end of their lifetime, but when they do flower they send up a massive inflorescence up to 5m high, and with an estimated one million flowers.
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.
Corypha utan palm with mature seeds
