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Licuala ramsayii Fan Palm rainforest. The fan-shaped leaves of the Licuala provide a stunning display with glowing rich green hues against the blue sky backdrop. Lowland Fan Palm forest has become rare in the northern Australian tropics. The clearing of large tracts of land for sugarcane and cattle farming, left few of these precious places intact. Small patches exist on the northern Queensland lowlands near Cape Tribulation and in the Tully–Mission Beach area – sites that are characterised by seasonal inundation and neighbouring Melaleuca forests.