of the family's seat. Distribution The genus has a disjunct distribution, which is split into three contiguous areas. The range of Livistona carinensis in Africa is very far away from that of the other species in the genus. In 1983 John Dransfield and Natalie Whitford Uhl first suggested that this odd pattern was due to a formerly much more extensive distribution during the warmer and moister climate of the Miocene, including areas between it and the rest, but that prehistoric climate change split them. Later DNA evidence of a mass of ancient extinctions between L. carinensis and the rest is thought to corroborate the theory. The recognition of Saribus has split the remaining distribution into a group of species found in Australia and southern New Guinea, and another group of species in East and Southeast Asia. Species The classification of the genus has been the subject of a number of recent revisions which have reduced the number of species since the 2009 monograph. The following is an uncritical list of species: Livistona alfredii F.Muell. - Australia: Western Australia Livistona australis (R.Br.) Mart. – Cabbage-tree palm - Australia: New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria Livistona benthamii F.M.Bailey - Australia: Queensland, Northern Territory; New Guinea Livistona boninensis (Becc.) Nakai - Bonin Islands Livistona carinensis (Chiov.) J.Dransf. & N.W.Uhl - Djibouti, Somalia, Yemen Livistona chinensis (Jacq.) R.Br. ex Mart. – Chinese fan palm - Japan: South and Ryukyu Islands, China: Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan; naturalized in South Africa, Java, New Caledonia, Hawaii, Micronesia, Florida, Dominican Republic, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and various island in the Indian Ocean Livistona concinna Dowe & Barfod - Australia: Queensland Livistona decora (W.Bull) Dowe - Australia: Queensland Livistona drudei F.Muell. ex Drude - Australia: Queensland Livistona eastonii C.A.Gardner, known as darngarna on the Mitchell Plateau - Australia: Western Australia Livistona endauensis J.Dransf. & K.M.Wong - Peninsular Malaysia Livistona exigua J.Dransf. - Brunei Livistona fulva Rodd - Australia: Queensland Livistona halongensis T.H.Nguyên & Kiew - Ha Long Bay Islands in Vietnam Livistona humilis R.Br. - Australia: Northern Territory Livistona inermis R.Br. - Australia: Northern Territory, Queensland Livistona jenkinsiana Griff. - Bhutan, India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam; Myanmar, Thailand, China: Hainan, Yunnan Livistona lanuginosa Rodd - Australia: Queensland Livistona lorophylla Becc.. - Australia: Northern Territory, Western Australia Livistona mariae F.Muell. – three subspecies Australia: Northern Territory, Queensland Livistona muelleri F.M.Bailey - Australia: Queensland; New Guinea Livistona nasmophila Dowe & D.L.Jones - Australia: Western Australia