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Licuala orbicularis is a small understorey palm from the rainforests of southwestern Sarawak on Borneo. It needs warm, humid, shaded conditions similar to its forest home.
Licuala orbicularis is a species of palm in the genus Licuala. It is endemic to southwestern Sarawak on the island of Borneo.
It grows as a rainforest understorey plant in mixed dipterocarp forest and kerangas forests, in moist valleys and on hill slopes, from 20 to 550 metres elevation.
Ferruginous Fan Palm · Ruffled Fan Leaf Palm · Licuala peltata · Fan palm · Mangrove Fan Palm
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Licuala orbicularis 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.
