Volume III (1980) - Flora of New Zealand Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous & Spathaceous Monocotyledons
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Phoenix canariensis Chabaud

*P. canariensis Chabaud Provence Agric. 19, 1882, 293, f. 66-68.

Trunk stocky, thick, up to 6 m tall and 45-60 cm diam., covered by large, closely packed leaf-scars. Leaves dark green, long, arched outwards from the terminal crown, segments very numerous, narrow, strongly keeled, sharply pointed. Berry 2.5-5 cm long, cylindrical- elliptic, orange-yellow.

N. Auckland - Auckland City, Tauranga.

(Canary Is)

First record:‡

FL. 9-10. FT. 12.

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