Trachycarpus fortunei (Hook.) H.Wendl.
Trunk straight, unbranched, from 4-12 m high; upper part covered with dark brown fibrous remains of petiole bases. Leaves fan-shaped, 75 × 100 cm, divided into numerous narrow leaflets pendulous at tip; petioles ± 1 m long with stout sharp marginal teeth, tapering to a broad sheath. Panicle deflexed. Flowers numerous. Drupe globose-reniform, 9 × c. 12 mm, yellow at first, later deep blue-black.
N. Auckland - Auckland City, Little Barrier Id, Kawau Id; wild plants well-established. S. Nelson - Nelson City, Stoke; occasional in damp bush remnants and along creeks.
(China)
First record: ‡
First collection: "Nelson, fringes of plantation, A. J. Healy 59/403, 7.5.1959, reproducing freely about edges of shrubberies, occas. bush margins about Nelson City; along several creeks" (CHR 118187).
FT. 3.
