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Laccospadix australasicus (Atherton palm)

Synonyms: Calyptrocalyx australasicus; Calyptrocalyx laccospadix; Ptychosperma laccospadix

Wikipedia Abstract

Laccospadix is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the palm endemic to Queensland. Only one species is known, Laccospadix australasicus, commonly called Atherton palm or Queensland kentia. The two Greek words from which it is named translate to "reservoir" and "spadix".
View Wikipedia Record: Laccospadix australasicus

Attributes

Fruit Conspicuous [1]  Yes
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Structure [2]  Tree
Height [1]  26 feet (8 m)
Fruit Color [1]  Red

Predators

Cephrenes augiades (Orange palmdart)[3]
Chrysomphalus dictyospermi (dictyospermum scale)[3]
Hemiberlesia lataniae (latania scale)[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kissling, W. Daniel et al. (2019), Data from: PalmTraits 1.0, a species-level functional trait database for palms worldwide, v4, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ts45225
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0