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Dransfieldia micrantha is the sole species of its genus, a slender, solitary-trunked palm with delicate pinnate leaves from the rainforest understorey of western New Guinea. It needs warm, humid, shaded conditions and is rarely grown outside specialist collections.
Dransfieldia is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the palm family from western New Guinea where the lone species Dransfieldia micrantha grows in dense rain forest. Discovered in 1872, 134 years passed before DNA testing revealed its proper placement. With no close relatives, it is a delicate, pinnate-leaved palm named after John Dransfield, former palm expert at the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens.
They are restricted to western New Guinea rain forest undergrowth, with high humidity and frequent rainfall.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dransfieldia 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.
