Archontophoenix maxima (Walsh River Palm)
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Archontophoenix maxima along a creek in moist eucalypt forest in the Herberton Range, Atherton Tableland, north Queensland
Photograph by tanetahi. Some rights reserved. (view image details)
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Young specimen of Archontophoenix maxima, the Walsh River Palm, growing in cultivation at Auckland, New Zealand
Photograph by Kahuroa. License: Public Domain. (view image details)
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WALSH RIVER PALM FACTS |
Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Common Name
Walsh River Palm
Other Names
Walsh River Archontophoenix
Description
The Walsh River Palm is the largest of the Archontophoenix species growing to twenty five metres tall with a trunk diameter of up to 30 cm (although the Mount Lewis King Palm A. purpurea is of similar proportions). The trunk is swollen at the base. The large fronds have relatively short stalks and are pinnate with green upper surface and greyish lower surface. It has very large clusters of white flowers. The branched flower spikes are similar to the Alexandra Palm, but larger growing up to 1.4 m long. The oval fruit is red and about 15 mm long. the palm is self-cleaning with a green crownshaft.
Habitat
tropical rainforest and wet eucalypt forest
Distribution
Archontophoenix maxima is found around the Walsh River and surrounding ranges in the Atherton Tablelands of north Queensland
Growth Characteristics
Height: 25m
Spread: fronds to 4m
Classification
| Class: | Liliopsida | | Order: | Arecales | | Family: | Arecaceae | | Genus: | Archontophoenix | | Species: | maxima | | Common Name: | Walsh River Palm |
Relatives in same Genus
Archontophoenix alexandrae
Archontophoenix cunninghamiana
Archontophoenix myolensis
Archontophoenix purpurea
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