Burretiokentia koghiensis

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Figure 1. B. koghiensis in habitat, Mt. Bouo.

Habitat:

Wet rainforest on rocky soils, on Mt. Bouo in the Mt. Koghi massif, south-east New Caledonia.

Description:

Medium to large solitary palm to 18m.

General:

A very newly discovered palm, so still fairly rare.

Culture:

Probably as for B. hapala and B. vieillardii

Figure 2. B. koghiensis, Mt. Bouo.

Figure 3. B. koghiensis, Mt. Bouo.

Figure 4. B. koghiensis in habitat, Mt. Bouo.

Contributed by:

Mike Gray (Figure 1,2&3).
Rolf Kyburz (Figure 4)

External Links:

Kew, PalmWeb, eMonocot, JSTOR, Trebrown

Google, GoogleImages, Flickr, PalmTalk