Editing Archontophoenix tuckeri

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[[File:Archontophoenix_tuckeri.jpg|frame|Figure 1. <i>A. tuckeri</i>]]
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===Common Names: ===
Rocky River/Peach Creek <i>Archontophoenix</i><br/>
Pascoe/Claudie River <i>Archontophoenix</i><br/>
Cape York and Bamaga <i>Archontophoenix</i><br/>

===Description: ===
Palm to 20 m tall, trunk to 26 cm in diameter
and expanded at the base. Leaves about 3 m long with a
moderate lateral twist. Crownshaft is green. Pinnae have
silver/grey scales below and tend to be semi-pendulous in the
apical 1/3. They lack ramenta on the midrib below. The
infiorescence, branched to 3 orders, usually holds the
branches erect though they become pendulous in fruit; it is
usually wider than long and remains green with maturation of
the fruit. Flowers are white/cream. Staminate flower has
13-19 stamens. Fruit is red/brick-red at maturity, 17-25 mm
long. Fibres in the mesocarp are in two distinct layers, the
outer with thin straight fibres, the inner with thick, fiat
to 0.3 mm wide, usually held tight in the dried state.
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===Distribution: ===
Occurs in rainforest, gallery forest,
swampforest, mangrove ecotone and moist vine-thickets of Cape
York Peninsula, Queensland from Mcllwraith Range 
[14&#176; 00'S] to Cape York [10&#176; 40'S], from sea-level to 500 m
altitude.

===Notes: ===
This is a variable species which tends to become
shorter with smaller leaves in the northern parts of its
range. The fruit is large and the two distinct layers of
fibres in the mesocarp are unique within the genus. New
leaves are often in tones of pink, red or bronze, and the
juvenile leaves become proportionately larger than in other
species before they commence to divide.
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[[File:Archontophoenix_tuckeri02.jpg|frame|Figure 2. <i>A. tuckeri</i> infructescence]]
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[[File:Archontophoenix_tuckeri03.jpg|frame|Figure 3. <i>A. tuckeri</i> cleaned seeds.]]
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===Contributed by: ===
John Dowe (Text - from <i><b>Palms & Cycads</b></i> No. 39, Apr-Jun 1993).<br/>
Luke Nancarrow (Figure 1,2&3)

===External Links:===
[https://powo.science.kew.org/results?q=Archontophoenix%20tuckeri Kew], 
[https://www.palmweb.org//?q=cdm_dataportal/taxon/2440835e-342f-47fb-9985-765a856fe8da PalmWeb],
[https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=Archontophoenix+tuckeri JSTOR],
[https://www.trebrown.com/plant_info.php?species=Archontophoenix+tuckeri Trebrown],
[https://keys.trin.org.au/key-server/data/0e0f0504-0103-430d-8004-060d07080d04/media/Html/taxon/Archontophoenix_tuckeri.htm ATRP]
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[https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Archontophoenix+tuckeri Flickr],
[https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Archontophoenix+tuckeri%22%20site:https://www.palmtalk.org/&amp;sa=Google+Search PalmTalk]
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