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Saribus rotundifolius; photograph (c) Nielbert Raner, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Nielbert Raner, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2021-05-15

Saribus rotundifolius (Lam.) Blume

Footstall Palm; Round-leaf Fountain Palm; Footstool palm; Luzon Livistona

Arecaceae · Borneo, Maluku +3

No habitat climate
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Saribus rotundifolius, photograph (c) Fabian Brambach, some rights reserved (CC BY)Saribus rotundifolius, photograph Kumar83, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSaribus rotundifolius, photograph Tangopaso, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsSaribus rotundifolius, photograph Pescov, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSaribus rotundifolius, photograph RuB (Ruddy Bénézet), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSaribus rotundifolius, photograph Fiver, der Hellseher, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 14 photographs ›

Summary

Saribus rotundifolius, also known as the footstool palm, is a common fan palm found in Southeast Asia. It is a member of the genus Saribus.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Saribus rotundifolius", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 90 of the 92 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.
NativeBorneo, Maluku, Philippines, Sulawesi, New Guinea · introduced: Assam, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Trinidad-Tobago · 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 marker7.175, 125.457 · in the densest population, 44 records (48% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 92 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 21 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 895 km away. 65 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 90 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 92 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: (c) Fabian Brambach, some rights reserved (CC BY); Kumar83, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Tangopaso, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Pescov, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; RuB (Ruddy Bénézet), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Fiver, der Hellseher, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Saribus 1 in the reference

Saribus jeanneneyi Saribus jeanneneyi Arecaceae Photo: CC BY, Alain Le Magueresse

Names & registers

Also known as Chamaerops biroo; Corypha rotundifolia; Licuala rotundifolia; Livistona altissima; Livistona microcarpa and 6 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Arecaceae
Described by
(Lam.) Blume
Native to
Borneo, Maluku, Philippines +2
Wild records
92 in range · 21 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; 3 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 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 answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
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 20 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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