Rhapis

{{Short description|Genus of palms}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Lady palms

| image = Rhapis humilis1.jpg

| image_caption = Rhapis humilis

| display_parents = 2

| taxon = Rhapis

| authority = L.f. ex Aiton

| type_species =Rhapis excelsa

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Rhapis is a genus of about 10 species of small palms native to southeastern Asia from southern Japan and southern China south to Sumatra.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=177951 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families] The species are commonly known as lady palms.

They are fan palms (subfamily Coryphoideae), with the leaves with a bare petiole terminating in a rounded fan of numerous leaflets. The plants have thin stems growing to 3–4 m tall, branching at the base, forming clumps and are dioecious,{{cite journal|doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.258.2.3|title=A revision of Rhapis (Arecaceae)|year=2016|last1=Henderson|first1=Andrew|journal=Phytotaxa|volume=258|issue=2|page=137|doi-access=free}} with male and female flowers produced on separate plants.

class="wikitable" ! Image !! Species !! Distribution
	Rhapis cochinchinensis (Lour.) Mart.	Thailand; Laos; Vietnam
150px	Rhapis excelsa (Thunb.) A.Henry	China: Fujian, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hainan, Yunnan; Vietnam; naturalized in Thailand; Japan: Ryukyu Islands
	Rhapis gracilis Burret	China: Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan; Vietnam
150px	Rhapis humilis Blume	China: Guangxi, Guizhou; Vietnam; naturalized in Japan and Java
	Rhapis micrantha Becc.	Laos; Vietnam
150px	Rhapis multifida Burret	China: Guangxi, Yunnan
	Rhapis puhuongensis M.S.Trudgen, T.P.Anh & A.J.Hend.	Vietnam
	Rhapis robusta Burret	China: Guangxi; Vietnam
150px	Rhapis subtilis Becc.	Thailand; Laos; Cambodia; Indonesia: Sumatra
	Rhapis vidalii Aver., T.H.Nguyên & P.K.Lôc	Vietnam