Sciencetific Name: Phoenix loureirii Kunth
Family Name: ARECACEAE
Native to the Philippines. Also native to Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hainan, Himalaya, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.
- Grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.
- In deciduous and evergreen forests and in clear terrain from sea level to 1,500 m altitude.
Phoenix loureiroi is a solitary or clustering palm with trunks from 1–4 m high and 25 cm in width, usually covered in old leaf bases. Leaves vary to some degree but usually reach 2 m in length with leaflets wide at the base and sharply pointed apices. The leaflets emerge from the rachis at varying angles creating a stiff, plumose leaf. Fruit is a single-seeded drupe, bluish-black when ripe, produced on erect, yellow inflorescences, usually hidden within the leaf crown.
Stems solitary or clustered, 1-6 m tall, 20-40 cm in diam., sometimes short and subterranean, rough with persistent, diamond-shaped leaf bases.