Dypsis remotifolia ID request any pictures out there!

[happypalms]

Purchased as remotifolia, but i cannot find any information about it. All get is remotiflora very similar to lantzeana. 
So is this a remotifolia or a dypsis mystery palm? 

[Booyong ridge]

Dypsis remotiflora? might be misspelt.

[happypalms]

13 minutes ago, Booyong ridge said:

Dypsis remotiflora? might be misspelt.

They look totally different to each other, I have remotiflora and this one has no new red leaf. Plant purchased from a very reliable source!

[Booyong ridge]

16 minutes ago, happypalms said:

They look totally different to each other, I have remotiflora and this one has no new red leaf. Plant purchased from a very reliable source!

Ahhh the beauty of a mystery....

[happypalms]

11 minutes ago, Booyong ridge said:

Ahhh the beauty of a mystery....

Like all dypsis they are a bit of a mystery regardless especially the sp variety’s!

[Frond-friend42]

In palmpedia remotiflora seems to have a new red leaf. Very pretty one.

[happypalms]

9 hours ago, Frond-friend42 said:

In palmpedia remotiflora seems to have a new red leaf. Very pretty one.

Yes I see that, this has no new red leaf and is labeled remotifolia, the mystery remains! 

[tim_brissy_13]

1 hour ago, happypalms said:

Yes I see that, this has no new red leaf and is labeled remotifolia, the mystery remains! 

When I do a search for D remotifolia, some interest things pop up:

1. It is on Bicon’s accepted species list

2. It appears in a thread Colin started on Palmtalk many years ago which he then corrected to D remotiflora. There’s some photos of a few in QLD but Dransfield comments that he’s not convinced they are truly D remotiflora.

3. It appears in a very old price list from Equatirial Exotics.

Im guessing you got it from Equatorial Exotics? I think based on the above it’s almost certainly a typo and should be D remotiflora. The suggestion on the previous Palmtalk thread discussing this species to help with ID at a young age is to check if the fronds feel very thick and leathery compared to other similar species (at least to check if it is the palm in cultivation known as remotiflora). The lack of red new fronds might not yet be prescriptive as some species develop this trait with age). 
 

Id be really curious if the growers who had this palm in the early 2000s now have flowering specimens which seems to be the only positive way to ID remotiflora vs other similar Dypsis. @palmtreesforpleasure, @Matt in SD not sure if you’ve got anything to add?

[happypalms]

12 hours ago, Frond-friend42 said:

In palmpedia remotiflora seems to have a new red leaf. Very pretty one.

I have seen that one and as utopia palms states, remotiflora is very similar to lantzeana. And they both don’t look the same as the remotifolia.

[happypalms]

52 minutes ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

When I do a search for D remotifolia, some interest things pop up:

1. It is on Bicon’s accepted species list

2. It appears in a thread Colin started on Palmtalk many years ago which he then corrected to D remotiflora. There’s some photos of a few in QLD but Dransfield comments that he’s not convinced they are truly D remotiflora.

3. It appears in a very old price list from Equatirial Exotics.

Im guessing you got it from Equatorial Exotics? I think based on the above it’s almost certainly a typo and should be D remotiflora. The suggestion on the previous Palmtalk thread discussing this species to help with ID at a young age is to check if the fronds feel very thick and leathery compared to other similar species (at least to check if it is the palm in cultivation known as remotiflora). The lack of red new fronds might not yet be prescriptive as some species develop this trait with age). 
 

Id be really curious if the growers who had this palm in the early 2000s now have flowering specimens which seems to be the only positive way to ID remotiflora vs other similar Dypsis. @palmtreesforpleasure, @Matt in SD not sure if you’ve got anything to add?

Yes this is what got me going I read Colin’s thread and thought hang on a minute it’s nothing like the remotifolia I have. 
Clayton had his say on the Remotiflora and lantzeana even Colin got the spelling incorrect. 
The palm did come from equatorial exotics and if anyone knows there stuff as equatorial exotics does one would expect equatorial to have it correct.

The red stem on the remotifolia I have is another confusing piece of the puzzle, I guess time will tell. 
The bicon list means it’s an acceptable species at least as far as they are concerned but it ends there. 
We need the muscles of Mr Wilson @palmtreesforpleasure to throw a spanner into the works and get his two bobs worth on the subject.

[Matt in SD]

I can't remember if I've grown remotiflora, although the palm in my profile pic looks a lot like it, so maybe I did   I think that was supposed to be Dypsis bosseri (the one in my profile pic).  But the palm in the photos starting this thread looks like maybe Dypsis paludosa (formerly florencei) maybe?

 

Matt

[happypalms]

4 hours ago, Matt in SD said:

I can't remember if I've grown remotiflora, although the palm in my profile pic looks a lot like it, so maybe I did   I think that was supposed to be Dypsis bosseri (the one in my profile pic).  But the palm in the photos starting this thread looks like maybe Dypsis paludosa (formerly florencei) maybe?

 

Matt

I just planted a paludosa and they are more lime green, the remotifolia has red colouring and tomentum. I did think it was a paludosa but did a comparison with the two together just to make sure. Do I don’t think it’s paludosa, remotiflora is the only other one but no new red leaf on the palm in question. Paludosa pictures below. 

[Matt in SD]

There is a distinct form of D paludosa (formerly known as D florencei) that has red leaf bases.  There are other small Dypsis that have red leaf bases, so it could be something else, but it does look a lot like the florencei version of paludosa.

Matt

[happypalms]

2 hours ago, Matt in SD said:

There is a distinct form of D paludosa (formerly known as D florencei) that has red leaf bases.  There are other small Dypsis that have red leaf bases, so it could be something else, but it does look a lot like the florencei version of paludosa.

Matt

Intresting, The palms of Madagascar has the paludosa stems with red brown scales, with no mention of florencei. Small dypsis get rather confusing no wonder they termed some varieties Dypsis complex. 
Richard 

[Harry’s Palms]

I really like the mottling of the leaf bases and petiole. Reminds me of the small Wodyetia or Caryota . The fact that it is already pushing a pup is amazing at the juvenile stage . That’ll keep @peachy and the “ palm mafia” away! 😂 Harry

[happypalms]

13 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

I really like the mottling of the leaf bases and petiole. Reminds me of the small Wodyetia or Caryota . The fact that it is already pushing a pup is amazing at the juvenile stage . That’ll keep @peachy and the “ palm mafia” away! 😂 Harry

Firstly @peachy if you remember has a wanted poster on my front gate and her accompanying posy of said palm pilfering gang are on a strict watch and act alert. But a beautiful little palm indeed at such a young age, I wish I had a couple a hundred of them in the greenhouse. And if I remember correctly it’s not on the palm mafia gangs hit list because it suckers, and we all know the peachy gang has strict no suckering palms rule are to be pilfered, so it’s safe for now!
Richard 

[palmtreesforpleasure]

Hi All,

I bought the D. remotiflora as remoltifolia.

I does not seed this far south as it requires a warmer  climate. When it still existed in Habit its temperature reqiluirement would be North of Brisbane

It is not a  Dypsis lanzeana which requires more heat than remoltiflora.

Had mine for many years

Hope this information and Pictures help

Regards

Colin

[tim_brissy_13]

2 hours ago, palmtreesforpleasure said:

Hi All,

I bought the D. remotiflora as remoltifolia.

I does not seed this far south as it requires a warmer  climate. When it still existed in Habit its temperature reqiluirement would be North of Brisbane

It is not a  Dypsis lanzeana which requires more heat than remoltiflora.

Had mine for many years

Hope this information and Pictures help

Regards

Colin

Wow Colin that certainly looks like the real deal based on the inflorescence. Do you know if there are any further north which have set seed?

[happypalms]

On 2/9/2026 at 7:28 PM, palmtreesforpleasure said:

Hi All,

I bought the D. remotiflora as remoltifolia.

I does not seed this far south as it requires a warmer  climate. When it still existed in Habit its temperature reqiluirement would be North of Brisbane

It is not a  Dypsis lanzeana which requires more heat than remoltiflora.

Had mine for many years

Hope this information and Pictures help

Regards

Colin

Still no red leaf sheath, it still remains a mystery?

Richard 

[happypalms]

21 hours ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

Wow Colin that certainly looks like the real deal based on the inflorescence. Do you know if there are any further north which have set seed?

If you’re baking Colin up that’s a good sign, yet no red leaf sheath I can see, so that one of mine is most likely not a remotifolia or remotiflora and iam ruling out lantzeana, another mystery dypsis like a lot of them out there!