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Arenga listeri (Lister's Palm)

Wikipedia Abstract

Arenga listeri, the Lister's palm, is a species of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family. It is named after naturalist Joseph Jackson Lister. It is endemic to Christmas Island and is threatened by habitat loss. The palm is featured on a 1978 postage stamp of Christmas Island together with Lister.
View Wikipedia Record: Arenga listeri

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Arenga listeri

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium
Fruit Conspicuous [2]  Yes
Leaf Type [3]  Evergreen
Height [2]  66 feet (20 m)

Predators

Birgus latro (coconut crab)[4]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Kissling, 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
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Dietary assimilation and the digestive strategy of the omnivorous anomuran land crab Birgus latro (Coenobitidae); Joanne E. Wilde, Stuart M. Linton, Peter Greenaway; J Comp Physiol B (2004) 174: 299–308
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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