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''Corypha utan'', more commonly known as Gebang Palm, or Cabbage Palm is a large imposing fan palm that reaches up to 20 m high with palm fronds between 4m and 6 m across, growing in areas from the Assam region of India through Indochina, Malaysia, and Indonesia to the Philippines and New Guinea, south to Australia's Cape York Peninsula.〔(''Corypha utan'' Palm and Cycad Societies of Australia web page ) Accessed 20 June 2009〕 These palms (like all ''Corypha'') flower only towards the end of their lifetime, but when they do flower they send up a massive inflorescence up to 5m high, and with an estimated one million flowers.〔 Growing along watercourses, floodplains and grasslands, the Palm and Cycad Socieites of Australia write about the ''Corypha utan'' palms occurring in Cape York:
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