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Livistona carinensis (Chiov.) J.Dransf. & N.W.Uhl

Bankoualé Palm; Fan palm

Arecaceae · Djibouti, Somalia +1

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Summary

Livistona carinensis, commonly known as the Bankoualé palm, is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It is one of the fan palms. Its leaves are distinguished by an armed petiole terminating in a rounded, costapalmate fan of numerous leaflets.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Livistona carinensis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Livistona

Livistona is a genus of palms, the botanical family Arecaceae, native to southeastern and eastern Asia, Australasia, and the Horn of Africa. They are fan palms, the leaves with an armed petiole terminating in a rounded, costapalmate fan of numerous leaflets.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Livistona", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 12 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 12 of the 12 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeDjibouti, Somalia, Yemen · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker14.467, 48.15 · in the densest population, 6 records (50% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “desert or dry shrubland” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 12 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 10 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 12 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 12 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Plantsman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Livistona 13 in the reference

Livistona australis Livistona australis Cabbage tree palm Photo: CC BY, ZaraLivistona benthamii Livistona benthamii Arecaceae Photo: CC BY, Stella FishLivistona chinensis Livistona chinensis Chinese fan palm Photo: CC BY, Cheng-Te HsuLivistona decora Livistona decora Ribbon Fan Palm Photo: CC BY, Scott W. GavinsLivistona drudei Livistona drudei Drude’s palm Photo: CC0, Ruff tuff cream puffLivistona fulva Livistona fulva Blackdown Fan Palm Photo: CC BY, Martin Hannan-JonesLivistona humilis Livistona humilis Cabbage palm Photo: CC BY, Stella FishLivistona jenkinsiana Livistona jenkinsiana Himalayan fan palm Photo: CC BY, chintan shethLivistona mariae Livistona mariae Central Australian cabbage palm Photo: CC BY, Gary DicksonLivistona muelleri Livistona muelleri Arecaceae Photo: CC BY, Bryce Watts-ParkerLivistona nitida Livistona nitida Carnarvon Fan Palm Photo: CC BY, quirinoLivistona saribus Livistona saribus Taraw palm Photo: CC BY, Jens-Christian Svenning all 14 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Hyphaene carinensis; Wissmannia carinensis. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Arecaceae
Described by
(Chiov.) J.Dransf. & N.W.Uhl
Native to
Djibouti, Somalia, Yemen
Wild records
12 in range · 10 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2212 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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