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PLANT FACTS |
Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Common Name
Minor Walking Stick Palm
Other Names
Walking Stick Palm
Description
The Minor Walking Stick Palm is a small clustering palm growing to about two metres tall but can grow as tall as five metres. The trunk diameter of up to 2 cm, but usually less. It has pinnate fronds with dark green leaflets, with the end pair of leaflets being broader than the others. The flower spike is about half a metre or more long, with reddish or yellowish fruit following the flowers. It is smaller than its relative Linospadix monostachya (Walking Stick Palm), hence its common name of 'minor'.
Habitat
grows as an understorey plant in tropical rainforest
Distribution
Linospadix minor is found in wet tropics of north east Queensland
Growth Characteristics
Height: 1m - 2m
Classification
| Class: | Liliopsida | | Order: | Arecales | | Family: | Arecaceae | | Genus: | Linospadix | | Species: | minor | | Common Name: | Minor Walking Stick Palm |
Relatives in same Genus
Linospadix monostachya
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