Livistona

Accepted species 28 Documented here 10 Family Arecaceae

Accepted species 28 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Livistona australis (R.Br.) Mart. 197 documented
Livistona decora (W.Bull) Dowe 77 documented
Livistona chinensis (Jacq.) R.Br. ex Mart. 40 documented
Livistona saribus (Lour.) Merr. ex A.Chev. 13 documented
Livistona nitida Rodd 10 documented
Livistona humilis R.Br. 9 documented
Livistona inermis R.Br. 4 documented
Livistona benthamii F.M.Bailey 3 documented
Livistona rigida Becc. 3 documented
Livistona speciosa Kurz 3 documented
Livistona alfredii F.Muell. 2 below the evidence gate
Livistona fulva Rodd 2 below the evidence gate
Livistona muelleri F.M.Bailey 2 below the evidence gate
Livistona halongensis T.H.Nguyên & Kiew 1 below the evidence gate
Livistona leichhardtii F.Muell. 1 below the evidence gate
Livistona mariae F.Muell. 1 below the evidence gate
Livistona boninensis (Becc.) Nakai 0 below the evidence gate
Livistona carinensis (Chiov.) J.Dransf. & N.W.Uhl 0 below the evidence gate
Livistona concinna Dowe & Barfod 0 below the evidence gate
Livistona drudei F.Muell. ex Drude 0 below the evidence gate
Livistona eastonii C.A.Gardner 0 below the evidence gate
Livistona endauensis J.Dransf. & K.M.Wong 0 below the evidence gate
Livistona exigua J.Dransf. 0 below the evidence gate
Livistona jenkinsiana Griff. 0 below the evidence gate
Livistona lanuginosa Rodd 0 below the evidence gate
Livistona nasmophila Dowe & D.L.Jones 0 below the evidence gate
Livistona tahanensis Becc. 0 below the evidence gate
Livistona victoriae Rodd 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.