Subtribe Livistoninae Higher classification Livistoninae | Tribe Corypheae Scientific name Livistona Rank Genus | |
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Lower classifications Livistona chinensis, Livistona saribus, Livistona mariae, Livistona speciosa, Livistona drudei | ||
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Livistona is a genus 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.
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Livistona is closely related to the genus Saribus, and for a time Saribus was included in Livistona. Recent studies, however, have advocated separating the two groups.
Livistona species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Batrachedra arenosella (recorded on L. subglobosa) and Paysandisia archon.
Kho (L. speciosa) is the tree of Khao Kho District in Thailand.
Species
- Livistona alfredii F.Muell. - Western Australia
- Livistona australis (R.Br.) Mart. – Cabbage-tree Palm - New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria
- Livistona benthamii F.M.Bailey - Queensland, Northern Territory, New Guinea
- Livistona boninensis (Becc.) Nakai - Ogasawara-shoto (Bonin Islands)
- Livistona carinensis (Chiov.) Dransf. & Uhl - Djibouti, Somalia, Yemen
- Livistona chinensis (Jacq.) R.Br. ex Mart. – Chinese Fan Palm - Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan; naturalized in South Africa, Java, New Caledonia, Hawaii, Micronesia, Florida, Dominican Republic, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and various island in the Indian Ocean
- Livistona concinna Dowe & Barfod - Queensland
- Livistona decora (W.Bull) Dowe - Queensland
- Livistona drudei F.Muell. ex Drude - Queensland
- Livistona eastoniiC.A.Gardner - Western Australia
- Livistona endauensis Dransf. & K.M.Wong - Peninsular Malaysia
- Livistona exigua J.Dransf. - Brunei
- Livistona fulva Rodd - Queensland
- Livistona halongensis - Ha Long Bay Islands in Vietnam
- Livistona humilis R.Br. - Northern Territory of Australia
- Livistona inermis R.Br. - Northern Territory of Australia, Queensland
- Livistona jenkinsiana Griff. - Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Myanmar, Thailand, Hainan, Yunnan
- Livistona lanuginosa Rodd - Queensland
- Livistona lorophylla Becc. - Northern Territory, Western Australia
- Livistona mariae F.Muell. – Central Australian Fan Palm - Northern Territory
- Livistona muelleri F.M.Bailey - Queensland, New Guinea
- Livistona nasmophila Dowe & D.L.Jones - Western Australia
- Livistona nitida Rodd – Carnarvon Fan Palm - Queensland
- Livistona rigida Becc. - Northern Territory of Australia, Queensland
- Livistona saribus (Lour.) Merr. ex A. Chev. - Indochina, Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Philippines; naturalized in Polynesia, Guangdong, Yunnan
- Livistona speciosa – Kho - Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia, Bangladesh, southern China
- Livistona tahanensis Becc. - Pahang in Malaysia
- Livistona victoriae Rodd. - Western Australia, Northern Territory
- Pritchardia gaudichaudii (Mart.) H.Wendl. (Livistona gaudichaudii)
- Pritchardia martii (Gaudich.) H.Wendl. (Livistona martii)
- Saribus rotundifolius (Lam.) Mart. – Anáhaw (Livistona rotundifolia, Livistona altissima, Livistona microcarpa, Livistona mindorensis)
- Saribus brevifolius (Dowe & Mogea) Bacon & W.J.Baker - (Livistona brevifolia)
- Saribus chocolatinus (Dowe) Bacon & W.J.Baker - (Livistona chocolatina)
- Saribus merrillii (Becc.) Bacon & W.J.Baker - (Livistona merrillii, Livistona whitfordii, Livistona blancoi)
- Saribus papuanus (Becc.) Kuntze - (Livistona papuana)
- Saribus surru (Dowe & Barfod) Bacon & W.J.Baker - (Livistona surru)
- Saribus tothur (Dowe & Barfod) Bacon & W.J.Baker - (Livistona tothur)
- Saribus woodfordii (Ridl.) Bacon & W.J.Baker - (Livistona woodfordii, Livistona beccariana)
Etymology
Robert Brown named the genus Livistona after Patrick Murray (1634–1671), Baron of Livingston, a botanist and horticulturist, who was largely responsible for establishing the botanical gardens in Edinburgh, Scotland.