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Dypsis leptocheilos

COMMON NAME

Teddy Bear palm

TYPE

​Palm

FAMILY

​Arecaceae

NOTES

A solitary palm with distinct rusty brownish-orange colored crownshaft that sports a fuzzy tomentum from which it's common name, The Teddybear Palm, comes from.

GEOGRAPHIC REGION

Madagascar

NATIVE HABITAT

Occurs in gallery forest in the western lowlands between Ambilobe and Maevatanana at 100-150 m.

WEB SOURCES

palmpedia.net

pacsoa.org

iucnredlist.org



Dypsis leptocheilos