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Carnarvon Fan Palm

Livistona nitida

Carnarvon Fan Palm
Photo: Cgoodwin, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Arecaceae (Palm family)
Grows as
Palm
Native range
EC. Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Livistona nitida, the Carnarvon Gorge cabbage palm, is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae.

It is endemic to Queensland in Australia.

Where it grows

It is found In the catchments of the Dawson, Comet and Burnett Rivers, and Carnarvon Gorge in Queensland. It is abundant on the margins of streams and in flood plains, but is also found near sandstone cliffs and gorges.

Other Livistona plants

Millstream Palm · Australian Fan Palm · Livistona benthamii · Livistona boninensis · Fan palm · Fountain palm · Ribbon Fan Palm · Drude’s Palm · Livistona eastonii · Livistona endauensis · Blackdown Fan Palm · Livistona halongensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Livistona nitida by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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