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Ptychosperma elegans (Alexander palm)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Ptychosperma elegans is a very slender palm endemic to the Northern Territory and eastern Queensland in Australia. It has the common names of Alexander palm, Solitaire palm, cabbage palm, and elegant palm. The palm's native habitats are coastal rainforests in northern Australia.
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-High
Fruit Conspicuous [2]  Yes
Leaf Type [3]  Evergreen
Lifespan [4]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Tree
Height [2]  39 feet (12 m)
Fruit Color [2]  Red

Predators

Cephrenes augiades (Orange palmdart)[5]
Cephrenes trichopepla (Yellow palmdart)[5]
Ischnaspis longirostris (black line scale)[6]
Rhizoecus falcifer (ground mealybug)[7]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 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
♦ 4USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 5Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 6Jorrit 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.
♦ 7Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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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