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Showing Borassus flabellifer
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- Plantae(reg.)
- Charophyta(div.)
- Equisetopsida(cl.)
- Magnoliidae(subcl.)
- Lilianae(superordo)
- Arecales(ordo)
- Arecaceae(fam.)
- Borassus(gen.)
- flabellifer(sp.)
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Type: "Habitat in India."
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Text: "F.M.Bailey, Queensland Agric. J. 2 [sic; 1(3)]: 233 (1897), refers to a single staminate plant cultivated near the now-abandoned homestead of F.L.Jardine at Somerset, Cape York. According to Bailey, the plant was acquired from '...a locality upon the Peninsula forty miles from the coast'. Jardine, in correspondence quoted by Bailey, described the locality as having '...quite a clump of palms, some having very thick stems...'. Bailey quoted the palm as being 20–30 ft (6–9 m) high. As of Nov. 2008, the palm stood at a height of 18–20 m. The species is not considered to be naturalised in Australia."
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APC Comment: An Asian taxon, listed by A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 430 (1991), on the basis of a cultivated plant recorded by F.M.Bailey, Queensland Agric. J. 1(3): 233 (1897), but not known to be naturalised in Australia.