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n. - Large fan palms of tropical Asia to Australia.

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  • It also has some 700 hectares of the fan-leaved Corypha or talipot palm Corypha umbraculifera, on the leaves of which Buddhist sermons were originally inscribed.
  • Notoloea punctata), and three palms, namely the Corypha australis or large fan palm, the Seaforthia elegans, and another, remarkable for its prickly leaves.
  • Buri (Corypha elate) is one of the Philippine palms with multiple uses.
  • Borassus and Corypha palms are good indicators of the seasonal climates that generate deciduous forests in the region.
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