Saribus woodfordii is a species of fan palm which is native to an area from southeastern Papua New Guinea to the Solomon Islands.[2][3][4]
S. woodfordii was first collected in 1897 or 1898 on the island of Makira, also known as San Cristobal, in the Solomon Islands, by the German plant collector Wilhelm Micholitz. It was first described in 1898 under the name Livistona woodfordi by Henry Nicholas Ridley.[5][6] Christine D. Bacon and William J. Baker moved the species to the resurrected genus Saribus in 2011.[1][4] The name was later corrected to Livistona woodfordii. A holotype was never designated by Ridley, so a lectotype was selected by John Leslie Dowe in 2009. Dowe chose the specimen sheet in The Natural History Museum in London, with isolectotypes designated in herbaria in the Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze, Singapore Botanic Gardens and the Kew Herbarium.[5]
This plant is a hermaphrodite fan palm. It has a trunk up to 16 metres (52 ft) in height, and 12–20 centimetres (4.7–7.9 in) diameter at breast height. The leaf or petiole scars are slightly raised, with irregular widths, and light grey in colour; the internodes between the scars are broad, and become greyish-brown to grey with age. The stubs of the petioles are not persistent, i.e. they do not remain clinging onto the trunk for long.[5]
Although Bacon and Baker do not provide a key to the nine species of Saribus,[4] one can be found in the key provided by Dowe in his 2009 Livistona monograph, where the eight species which were transferred to Saribus are split from the rest in the beginning of the key. S. woodfordii keys out together with S. chocolatinus, S. papuanus and S. merrillii which all have inflorescences that divide to the third order. S. papuanus and S. merrillii have yellow flowers as opposed to red. S. woodfordii can be distinguished from S. chocolatinus by having somewhat hanging ends of the leaf segments, as opposed to rigid, a deeply undulate leaf blade. S. woodfordii has half as short inflorescence brachlets (rachillae) at 4 to 6 cm long. These rachillae are also half as thick at 1mm. S. chocolatinus is furthermore the only species to have its rachillae covered throughout in tomentose indumentum -this is chocolate-brown at their bases, turning cream-green near their ends, whereas S. woodfordii only has tomentum at the bases of the rachillae, and this is coloured purplish-brown.[5]
It was cultivated in the Singapore Botanic Gardens, at least in the 1920s.[7]
Saribus woodfordii is a species of fan palm which is native to an area from southeastern Papua New Guinea to the Solomon Islands.
Livistona woodfordii es una especie perteneciente a la familia de las palmeras (Arecaceae). Es originaria de las Islas Salomon.[2]
Es una palmera muy poco común que crece únicamente en las diminutas Islas Florida, en el centro del archipiélago de las islas Salomón, donde se encuentra colonizando afloramientos rocosos. Tiene un tronco esbelto y moderadamente alto, rematado por una densa corona de hojas de color verde brillante y con forma de abanico. Las hojas de las palmeras jóvenes tienen un perfil circular superficialmente dividido, y se parecen a las de la Licuala.[3]
Livistona woodfordii fue descrita por Henry Nicholas Ridley y publicado en The Gardeners' Chronicle & Agricultural Gazette 1898(1): 177. 1898.[4]
Livistona: nombre genérico otorgado en honor de Patrick Murray, Barón Livingstone, quien construyó un jardín en su finca de Livingstone, al oeste de Edimburgo, Escocia, en la última parte del siglo XVII.[5]
woodfordii: epíteto
Livistona woodfordii es una especie perteneciente a la familia de las palmeras (Arecaceae). Es originaria de las Islas Salomon.
Livistona woodfordii est une espèce de plantes de la famille des Arecaceae. Cette espèce est maintenant[3] intégré dans le genre Saribus, après les études Phylogénomique de Christine Bacon et William J. Baker. Son nom est donc Saribus woodfordii.
Livistona woodfordii est une espèce de plantes de la famille des Arecaceae. Cette espèce est maintenant intégré dans le genre Saribus, après les études Phylogénomique de Christine Bacon et William J. Baker. Son nom est donc Saribus woodfordii.
