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Cyphosperma tanga is a rare palm tree found only on Mount Tomanivi on Viti Levu, Fiji, and is threatened by logging and habitat loss. It is a wild tropical forest species not known as a garden or houseplant, so care guidance is limited.
Cyphosperma tanga is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It is a tree endemic to Fiji, known only from Mount Tomanivi on Viti Levu. Cutting by the Forestry Department resulted in the serious depletion of one subpopulation in 1970 and also continues to affect another more recently discovered subpopulation. Seed crops of reasonable size appear to be extremely infrequent and it is threatened by habitat loss.
The species was first described as Taveunia tanga by H.E.Moore in 1965. In 1977 Moore placed the species in genus Cyphosperma as C. tanga.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cyphosperma tanga by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
