Licuala naumoniensis

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Licuala (lik-oo-AH-lah)
naumoniensis
(nah-moh-nee-EHN-siss)
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Townsville Palmetum, Queensland, Australia. Photo by Wal.
Scientific Classification
Genus: Licuala (lik-oo-AH-lah)
Species:
naumoniensis
(nah-moh-nee-EHN-siss)
Synonyms
Licuala var. 'Big Trunk'
Native Continent
Oceania
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Morphology
Habit: Solitary
Leaf type: Costapalmate
Culture
Survivability index
Common names
None.

Habitat and Distribution

New Guinea.
Kona, Hawaii. Photo by Mike Galvin.

Description

Culture

Comments and Curiosities

"I bought a few of these from Palms of Paradise in Hilo many years ago. They were sold to me as Licuala naumannii and that was the name I used for many years. Until I checked the Kew site and found out that there's no such name. Despite what has been said earlier in this thread regarding this name I tend to go by Kew's list. Dransfield has worked at Kew for many years and he has been instrumental in describing many of these species. If Kew doesn't recognize a particular name (like L. naumannii) then I have to assume there's a very good reason for this. Reason being, in this case, no Licuala has ever been described using this name. When I found out that naumannii is not a valid name, and has never been a valid name, I made an assumption (and we all know that assumptions are not good! :rolleyes: ) - I assumed the palms I had bought from Palms of Paradise were, in fact, L. naumoniensis. Maybe they are - maybe they're not. At this point I really don't know. All I know is that these are small palms. They don't seem to get much above 6 ft/2 m. in height, even after many years. One very important aspect - it seems many of you get "distracted" by the shape of the leaflets. BIG mistake. Lots of variability, even on the very same palm. Some fronds has a wide central leaflet and some don't. Some has a lot of open space at the "bottom" of the frond (where it connects to the petiole) and some don't. Many times on the same palm. And I would never refer to these as "miniature ramsayis". Any L. ramsayi will have much wider leaflets. And I'm not talking about the size itself, but simply the fact that many ramsyi leaflets are more "entire" in their appearance. Not so with this little palm, whether it's a naumoniensis or not. Much more separation and less "entireness". (BGL)

"This is a slender, delicate dwarf palm, while ramsayii is quite robust from a young age, this is one of the larger licuala sp. with larger teeth, also the biggest give away is ramsayii usually has a very wide terminal leaflet." (Danny Vagnoni).



External Links

References

Phonetic spelling of Latin names by edric.

Special thanks to Geoff Stein, (Palmbob) for his hundreds of photos.

Special thanks to Palmweb.org, Dr. John Dransfield, Dr. Bill Baker & team, for their volumes of information and photos.

Glossary of Palm Terms; Based on the glossary in Dransfield, J., N.W. Uhl, C.B. Asmussen-Lange, W.J. Baker, M.M. Harley & C.E. Lewis. 2008. Genera Palmarum - Evolution and Classification of the Palms. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. All images copyright of the artists and photographers (see images for credits).


Many Special Thanks to Ed Vaile for his long hours of tireless editing and numerous contributions.

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