Licuala malajana malajana

Description

Small palm from Thailand and Malaysia with big, deeply divided, circular fan leaves. Would make a superb pot plant, otherwise tropical in its requirements. It also occurs in Peninsular Malaysia, where it grows in ridge-top dipterocarp forest with Eugisson atristis, Nenga sp. and it is described as common and dominant in the understorey of logged over dipterocarp forest (Specimen no. 39882 Saw, L.G.). It is recorded as locally common from many localities (Barfod & Saw 2002). It has been found at elevations above 800m in hill dipterocarp forest (Saw 1997) Editing by edric