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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Livistona
|accepted_authority=R. Brown
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Prodr.
|place=267. 1810
|year=1810
}}
|common_names=Cabbage palm;footstool palm
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Saribus
|authority=Blume
|rank=genus
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Wissmania
|authority=Burret
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Arecaceae;Arecaceae subfam. Coryphoideae;Arecaceae tribe Corypheae;Arecaceae (tribe Corypheae) subtribe Livistoninae;Livistona
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Arecaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Arecaceae subfam. Coryphoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Arecaceae tribe Corypheae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Arecaceae (tribe Corypheae) subtribe Livistoninae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Livistona]]</div></div>
|etymology=for Patrick Murray, Baron of Livingstone (d. 1671), whose collections formed the nucleus of the Edinburgh Botanic Garden
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 102
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>small to large. <b>Stems</b> solitary, erect, slender (rarely) to robust (more than 20 cm diam.), at first covered by persistent leaf sheaths, later becoming bare or covered with persistent petiole bases, ringed conspicuously or obscurely with leaf scars. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole not split at base, strongly armed [unarmed]; abaxial hastula minute or absent; adaxial hastula conspicuous; blade palmate or costapalmate; plication induplicate; segments basally connate, lanceolate, not producing fibers between segments. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary within crown of leaves, paniculate with 3–5 orders of branching, about as ± as long as leaves; prophyll membranaceous; peduncular bracts many, obscuring rachis; rachillae pubescent. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual [unisexual], borne singly along rachillae [in small groups]; perianth 2-seriate; calyx cupulate, 3-lobed; corolla 3-lobed, valvate; stamens 6, connate in short tube; gynoecium: pistils 3, distinct basally, glabrous; styles connate, slender. <b>Fruits</b> drupes; exocarp blackish, smooth; mesocarp fleshy; endocarp bony. <b>Seeds</b> globose or ellipsoid; endosperm homogeneous; embryo lateral; eophyll undivided, lanceolate. <b>x</b>n = 18.</span><!--

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|distribution=Introduced in Fla.;West Indies;Bermuda;native to Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands;and Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species 25+ (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=butts1959a
|text=Butts, E. H. 1959. Livistona chinensis naturalized in Florida. Principes 3: 133.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Inflorescences with 3 orders of branching; fruits oblong (rarely globose), ripening from green to blue-green
|[[Livistona chinensis|Livistona chinensis]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Inflorescences with 5 orders of branching, immediately 3-forking to 3 equal main axes; fruits globose, ripening from green through orange to black
|[[Livistona rotundifolia|Livistona rotundifolia]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Livistona
|authority=R. Brown
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=Saribus;Wissmania
|basionyms=
|family=Arecaceae
|distribution=Introduced in Fla.;West Indies;Bermuda;native to Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands;and Australia.
|reference=butts1959a
|publication title=Prodr.
|publication year=1810
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V22/V22_241.xml
|subfamily=Arecaceae subfam. Coryphoideae
|tribe=Arecaceae tribe Corypheae
|subtribe=Arecaceae (tribe Corypheae) subtribe Livistoninae
|genus=Livistona
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