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Livistona chinensis 

Chinese fan palms 

 Scientific name- Livistona chinensis 

Common name- Chinese fan palms 

Family- Arecaceae 

Habit type- Tree 

Leaves 

Stems to 15 m tall, 20-30 cm in diam., rough with leaf scars. 

Leaves palmate; petioles to 1.8 m, with green or black, recurved spines along margins, spines denser proximally, fewer distally on petioles; hastula to 3 cm; blades almost circular in outline, 1.2-1.8 m wide, green on both surfaces, regularly divided to ca. 1/2 their length into 50-90 segments, these split and pendulous at apices. 

Bark 

The bark of this tree has ridges and grooves where lenticels are present which help in respiration 

Inflorescences 1-1.2 m, branched to 3 orders, with 6 or 7 partial inflorescences; rachillae 10-18 cm. 

Flowers hermaphroditic, borne in clusters of 4-7, white or yellow, 2-2.5 mm. 

Fruits green or blue-green, globose to ellipsoid or pear-shaped, 1.5-2.6 × 0.9- 1.8 cm. segments 2-5 mm wide, filamentous, parallel veins 8-9 each side of midrib; transverse veins thinner than parallel veins; hastula about 3 cm high.