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{{PalmSpeciesHeader}} __NOTOC__ <div class="row"> <div class="small-0 large-5 columns"> [[File:Corypha_utan.jpg|frame|Figure 1. ''C. utan'' in habitat, on the island of Negros, the Philippines.]] </div> <div class="small-0 large-7 columns"> ===Synonymy:=== ''Corypha elata'' ===Common Names:=== Gebang Palm<br/> ===Habitat:=== Open grasslands, and along rivers and wetlands, of south-central Asia (from India thru to the Philippines and northern Australia). ===Description:=== A massive (immense) fan palm to about 20m, with leaves from 4 to 6m across. One of the largest of all the palms. ===General:=== Like all ''Corypha'', these palms only flower at the end of their life, sending up a massive inflorescense, up to 5m high, and with up to 1 million flowers (see Figure 2). ===Culture:=== Full sun, and lots of water. Tropical to warm temperate. Slow growing, and doesn't like being disturbed once planted. See Germinating Corypha seeds for some interesting info about growing the seeds. </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="small-0 large-6 columns"> [[File:Corypha_utan04.jpg|frame|Figure 2. ''C. utan'' inflorescence. Note the birds, red vented bulbos (?),probably eating the bees.]] </div> <div class="small-0 large-6 columns"> [[File:Corypha_utan02.jpg|frame|Figure 3. ''C. utan'' in habitat, Negros, the Philippines.]] </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="small-0 large-6 columns"> [[File:Corypha_utan03.jpg|frame|Figure 4. A young ''C. utan''.]] </div> </div> ===Contributed by: === Eric Hanquinet (Figure 1&3)<br/> Norm Scott (Figure 2)<br/> Kyle Wicomb (Figure 4)<br/> ===External Links:=== [https://powo.science.kew.org/results?q=Corypha%20utan Kew], [https://www.palmweb.org//?q=cdm_dataportal/taxon/50043835-f813-48ac-87e5-b0fedc4e06e6 PalmWeb], [https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=Corypha+utan JSTOR], [https://www.trebrown.com/plant_info.php?species=Corypha+utan Trebrown], [https://keys.trin.org.au/key-server/data/0e0f0504-0103-430d-8004-060d07080d04/media/Html/taxon/Corypha_utan.htm ATRP] </p> [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Corypha+utan%22&num=10&sa=Google+Search Google], [https://images.google.com/images?q=%22Corypha+utan%22&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search GoogleImages], [https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Corypha+utan Flickr], [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Corypha+utan%22%20site:https://www.palmtalk.org/&sa=Google+Search PalmTalk] <p> [[Category:Corypha|utan]] [[Category:Palm|Corypha_utan]]
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