Corypha utan

Cabbage Palm or Gebang Palm
Corypha utan stand at Kowanyama, Queensland
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
Subfamily: Coryphoideae
Tribe: Corypheae
Genus: Corypha
Species: C. utan
Binomial name
Corypha utan
Lam.
Synonyms[1]
  • Borassus sylvestris Giseke nom. illeg.
  • Corypha elata Roxb.
  • Corypha gebang Mart.
  • Corypha gembanga (Blume) Blume
  • Corypha griffithiana Becc.
  • Corypha macrophylla Roster
  • Corypha macropoda Kurz
  • Corypha sylvestris Mart. nom. illeg.
  • Gembanga rotundifolia Blume
  • Livistona vidalii Becc.
  • Taliera elata (Roxb.) Wall.
  • Taliera gembanga Blume nom. illeg.
  • Taliera sylvestris Blume nom. illeg.

Corypha utan, more commonly known as Gebang Palm, or Cabbage Palm is a large imposing fan palm that reaches up to 20 m high with palm fronds between 4m and 6 m across, growing in areas from the Assam region of India through Indochina, Malaysia, and Indonesia to the Philippines and New Guinea, south to Australia's Cape York Peninsula.[2]

These palms (like all Corypha) flower only towards the end of their lifetime, but when they do flower they send up a massive inflorescence up to 5m high, and with an estimated one million flowers.[2]

Growing along watercourses, floodplains and grasslands, the Palm and Cycad Socieites of Australia write about the Corypha utan palms occurring in Cape York:

Corypha utan .. is undoubtedly one of the most imposing species in the Australian palm flora (with its massive pachycaul trunks and hapaxanthic flowering and fruiting extravaganza. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species". Retrieved June 11, 2014.
  2. 1 2 Corypha utan Palm and Cycad Societies of Australia web page Accessed 20 June 2009
  3. ↑ Corypha utan On Cape York Peninsula, Queensland Palm and Cycad Societies of Australia web page Accessed 20 June 2009


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