Licuala ramsayi Fan Palm and Feather Palms Ptychosperma elegans, Hydriastele wendlandiana. Malbon Thompson Range, southeast of Cairns, Queensland, 1959.

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Flora -- Queensland -- North (Wet Tropics)
Licuala ramsayi Fan Palm and Feather Palms Ptychosperma elegans, Hydriastele wendlandiana

Malbon Thompson Range, southeast of Cairns, Queensland

1959

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Palms with few species in many different genera occur in the Queensland wet tropics.
Mesophyll vine forest on alluvial/colluvial soils from granite and metamorphics.
See notes for Image 7-74.
Photograph courtesy of R.F. Thorne.

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