Licuala spp. are fan palms, with the leaves mostly circular in outline, sometimes undivided but more usually divided into wedge-shaped segments.
Licuala acutifida is the source of cane for the walking stick nicknamed the
Penang-lawyer by colonials, probably from the Malay phrase for a wild
areca, although the term may also refer to the use of these canes as deadly
knobkerries to assassinate litigious enemies. Several species of
Licuala have been transferred into a new genus
Lanonia. ==Species==