Ptychosperma is a genus of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. Most are native to Australia and/or New Guinea, with a few in the Solomon Islands and in Maluku Province of eastern Indonesia. Some have been cultivated abroad as house or garden plants, and reportedly naturalized in certain regions (Caribbean, Polynesia, Fiji, Florida,[1][2] Australia, New Guinea)[3]
^ abKew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Ptychosperma is a genus of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. Most are native to Australia and/or New Guinea, with a few in the Solomon Islands and...
Ptychosperma macarthurii, commonly known as the Macarthur palm, is a species of tree in the palm family Arecaceae. Its native range is northern Cape York...
Ptychosperma elegans, commonly known as the solitaire palm (or elegant palm after the scientific name), is a very slender palm endemic to Queensland in...
about 8 mm (0.3 in) diameter. The species was originally described as Ptychosperma alexandrae by Ferdinand von Mueller in his Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae...
Ptychosperma nicolai is a species of plant in the family Arecaceae, endemic to New Guinea. It grows up to 8 meters in height, with red fruit. Actinophloeus...
Ptychosperma gracile is a species of palm tree. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea, where it occurs in the Louisiade and Bismarck Archipelagoes. It grows...
Garden (MOBOT). Retrieved December 17, 2012. Basionym: Ptychosperma seemannii H.Wendl. Ptychosperma seemannii, the basionym of Balaka seemannii, was originally...
in 1858 by the German botanist Hermann Wendland, who gave it the name Ptychosperma cunninghamianum. Seventeen years later, working with his countryman Carl...
the palm in Indonesian New Guinea in 1872 assigning it to the genus Ptychosperma under the epithet micranthum, Latin for "small flower". The leaf tips...
Esplanade, North Queensland Female with nest - Cairns, Queensland Feeding on Ptychosperma elegans fruit in Cairns, Queensland Metallic Starlings around high nests...
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