Editing Livistona inermis (section)

===Location: ===
The palms occur on Westmoreland Station in far
north-west Queensland. The region has a monsoonal climate
with the 920mm annual rainfall concentrated in two months of
the year. The estimated extent of this population covers from
17&#176; 24' S to 17&#176; 28' S and 138&#176; 09' E to 138&#176; 17' S.
This is about 65km inland from the Gulf of
Carpentaria and 20km east of the Queensland/Northern
Territory border. The rocks are predominantly sandstone
conglomerate of the Westmoreland formation overlying
volcanics in parts. The palms appear to grow almost
exclusively on the sandstone and soils derived from it,
densest at the bases of weathered cliffs. In at least one
site, volcanics are at shallow depth. Occasional palms grow
in cracks and depressions on the ridges. The area is prone to
strong "gully winds" for an hour or so each night. These
would rapidly strip senescent leaves during the dry season
and probably contribute to the relatively clean trunks of the
majority of the palms in the population.

Hitherto, the recorded distribution of this species was
considered confined to the Northern Territory, throughout the
Top End from the Adelaide River to Nourlangie, including
Katherine Gorge where it reaches its highest population
density, and on the islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria
including Groote Eylandt, Maria Island and the Sir Edward
Pellew Group as well as the aforementioned (but incorrectly
determined collection) site at about 100km north-west of
Mount Isa. The type locality is the Sir Edward Pellew Group,
which is some 240kin north-west of the Westmoreland stand. It
is mentioned as occuring in Queensland (Brock 1988) but
without further details.