''Calyptrocalyx elegans'' is a palm species in the genus ''

Calyptrocalyx ''Calyptrocalyx'' is a genus of plants in the palm family Arecaceae, native to New Guinea and the nearby Maluku Islands. Ranging from small to large, the palms in this genus are increasingly found in cultivation owing largely to their purple, re ...

'' found in

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...

and the nearby

Maluku Islands The Maluku Islands ( ; , ) or the Moluccas ( ; ) are an archipelago in the eastern part of Indonesia. Tectonics, Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone. Geographically they are located in West ...

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''Calyptrocalyx elegans'' at Tropicos
elegans Flora of Papua New Guinea Flora of the Maluku Islands Plants described in 1889 Taxa named by Odoardo Beccari {{Areceae-stub