Licuala

taxobox
name = "Licuala"

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image_caption = "Licuala grandis"
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Monocots
unranked_ordo = Commelinids
ordo = Arecales
familia = Arecaceae
subfamilia = Coryphoideae
tribus = Corypheae
genus = "Licuala"
genus_authority = Wurmb
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = approx. 130|

"Licuala" is a genus of palms commonly found in tropical rainforests of southern Asia, New Guinea and the western Pacific Ocean islands. They are fan palms, with the leaves mostly circular in outline, sometimes undivided but more usually divided right to the leaf stalk into wedge-shaped segments.

;Selected species
* "Licuala dasyantha"
* "Licuala grandis"
* "Licuala lauterbachii"
* "Licuala orbicularis"
* "Licuala paludosa"
* "Licuala peltata"
* "Licuala pumila"
* "Licuala ramsayi"
* "Licuala rumphii"
* "Licuala spinosa"

References

* [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?6816 Germplasm Resources Information Network: "Licuala"]