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Habitat:

Wet rainforest, central New Caledonia.

Description:

A medium/tall emergant feather palm, with a dark (green to black) trunk, to about 15 metres, with a prominant rings (often whitish), It has many erect/ascending leaves, and numerous long (2-3 m) arching inflorescenses, which give it a very striking appearance.

Culture:

Apparently an easy plant to grow, with seeds germinating readily, however it is very rarely seen in cultivation.

Figure 1. *C. balansae* in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.

Figure 2. Close-up of the inflorescence.

Contributed by:

Ian Edwards (Figures 1&2)

External Links:

Kew, PalmWeb, eMonocot, JSTOR, Trebrown

Google, GoogleImages, Flickr, PalmTalk

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 ===Contributed by: ===
 Ian Edwards (Figures 1&2)<br/>
 ===External Links:===
-<p>[https://www.kew.org/wcsp/qsearch.do?plantName=Cyphosperma+balansae&amp;page=quickSearch Kew],
+[https://powo.science.kew.org/results?q=Cyphosperma%20balansae Kew],
 [https://www.palmweb.org//?q=cdm_dataportal/taxon/2d501511-73bf-46d0-89ad-4f7dfb97b88f PalmWeb],
 [https://e-monocot.org/taxon/urn:kew.org:wcs:taxon:53860 eMonocot],
 [https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=Cyphosperma+balansae JSTOR],
 [https://www.trebrown.com/plant_info.php?species=Cyphosperma+balansae Trebrown]
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 [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Cyphosperma+balansae%22&amp;num=10&amp;sa=Google+Search Google],
 [https://images.google.com/images?q=%22Cyphosperma+balansae%22&amp;hl=en&amp;btnG=Google+Search GoogleImages],
 [https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Cyphosperma+balansae Flickr],
 [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Cyphosperma+balansae%22%20site:https://www.palmtalk.org/&amp;sa=Google+Search PalmTalk]
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 [[Category:Cyphosperma|balansae]]
 [[Category:Palm|Cyphosperma_balansae]]