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Licuala

{{Short description|Genus of palms}}

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| image_caption = Licuala grandis

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| taxon = Licuala

| authority = Wurmb, 1780

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| synonyms = *Pericycla Blume

  • Dammera K.Schum. & Lauterb.|

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Licuala is a genus of palms, in the tribe Trachycarpeae, commonly found in tropical forests of southern China, Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, New Guinea and the western Pacific Ocean islands.Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=118522 Flora of China, Vol. 23 Page 148, 轴榈属 zhou lü shu, Licuala Wurmb, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. Kunst. 2: 473. 1780]Saw, L.G. (2012). A revision of Licuala (Arecaceae, Coryphoideae) in Borneo. Kew Bulletin 67: 577-654.Heatubun, C.D., Barfod, A.S. 2008, Two new species of 'Licuala' (Arecaceae; Coryphoideae) from Western new Guinea. Blumea. 53(2): 429–434.

Description and uses

Licuala spp. are fan palms, with the leaves mostly circular in outline, sometimes undivided but more usually divided into wedge-shaped segments. Licuala acutifida is the source of cane for the walking stick nicknamed the Penang-lawyer by colonials, probably from the Malay phrase {{lang|ms|pinang liyar}} for a wild areca, although the term may also refer to the use of these canes as deadly knobkerries to assassinate litigious enemies.[http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?6816 Germplasm Resources Information Network: Licuala] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924122125/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?6816 |date=24 September 2015 }} Several species of Licuala have been transferred into a new genus Lanonia.{{Cite journal|last1=Henderson|first1=Andrew J.|last2=Bacon|first2=Christine D.|date=2011|title=Lanonia (Arecaceae: Palmae), a New Genus from Asia, with a Revision of the Species|jstor=41416905|journal=Systematic Botany|volume=36|issue=4|pages=883–895|doi=10.1600/036364411x604903|s2cid=84318474 }}

Species

Plants of the World Online as of February 2021 includes 167 accepted species:{{cite web |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:326022-2 |title=Licuala Wurmb |date=2021 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=7 February 2021 }}

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References

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Category:Arecaceae genera

Category:Flora of Indomalesia