Vasilis Teodoridis:
Arecaceae | Livistona
2. Livistona saribus (Loureiro) Merrill ex Chevalier; Bull. Econ. Indochine; n.s. 21: 501. 1919.
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Corypha saribus Loureiro; Fl. Cochinch. 1: 212. 1790; Chamaerops cochinchinensis Loureiro; Livistona cochinchinensis (Loureiro) Martius; L. diepenhorstii Hasskarl; L. hasseltii (Hasskarl) Hasskarl; L. hoogendorpii Teijsmann & Binnendijk; L. inaequisecta Beccari; L. spectabilis Griffith; L. tonkinensis Magalon; L. vogamii Beccari; Pholidocarpus diepenhorstii (Hasskarl) Burret; Rhapis cochinchinensis (Loureiro) Martius; Sabal hoogendorpii (Teijsmann & Binnendijk) Kuntze; Saribus cochinchinensis (Loureiro) Blume; S. hasseltii Hasskarl; S. hoogendorpii (Teijsmann & Binnendijk) Kuntze.
Stems to 40 m tall; to 65 cm in diam.; rough with leaf scars. Leaves palmate; petioles 1-2 m; with green to brown; recurved spines along margins; spines denser proximally; fewer distally on petioles; blades almost circular in outline; 1.5-1.7 m wide; green adaxially and abaxially; irregularly divided for up to 1/2 their length into 80-90 segments; segments in groups; each group separated by a split almost to base of leaf; segments deeply split and pendulous at apices. Inflorescences to 2.3 m; branched to 3 orders; with 4-9 partial inflorescences; rachillae 15-45 cm; flowers borne in clusters of 3-5; yellowish; to 2 mm. Fruits blue or blue-gray; globose to ellipsoid; to 2.5 x 2 cm.
Lowland rain forests or dry forests; often in periodically inundated habitats; below 600-1100 m. Guangdong; Yunnan [Borneo; Cambodia; Indonesia (Java; Sumatra); Laos; Malaysia (Peninsular); Philippines; Thailand; Vietnam].
The leaves are used for thatching and fishing; the fruits are eaten locally.