✿Arecaceae · Dictyosperma
Hurricane Palm
Dictyosperma album
Also known as Princess Palm
Palmoutdoor
- Habit
- Palm
- Found in India
- Maharashtra
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Dictyosperma album
- Genus
- Dictyosperma
- Family
- Arecaceae
- Habit
- Palm
- Habitat
- Cultivated
- Habitat type
- Cultivated
- Native to
- Mascarene Islands
- Found in India
- Maharashtra
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf type
- Pinnately compound (feather-shaped fronds)recorded
- Leaf shape
- OrbicularrecordedRounded, roughly circular.“The crownshaft is over a meter tall, swollen at the base, and covered in white wax— which has given the palm its epithet album— and small, matted brown hairs, producing a rounded l” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Hurricane Palm itself; the rest are typical of the Arecaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Panicle
- Fruit
- Drupe
Typical of the Arecaceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
About Hurricane Palm
Hurricane Palm (Dictyosperma album) belongs to the Arecaceae family, where it grows as a palm. In India it has been recorded in Maharashtra. It is cultivated.
Botanical family
Arecaceae
Palm family
Hurricane Palm belongs to the Arecaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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