Archontophoenix at Montgomery Botanical Center

Abstract

Following revision of the genus by Dowe and Hodel (1994), Archontophoenix comprises six species of palms native to tropical to warm-temperate Australia, in Queensland and New South Wales. The living collections at Montgomery Botanical Center have five of these six species represented (see table). These collections include some very old specimens that date back to Colonel Montgomery (Figure 1) and a significant group of more recently collected plants including Archontophoenix tuckeri (Figure 2), the most tropical of the species.