Red Cabbage Palm
Livistona mariae
  these palms are relics from millions of years ago when Central Australia, now an arid desert environment, was a much wetter tropical environment; this strand has remained till today because of the unique geological nature of the area, in which water continually seeps down from the tops of the gorges into the rocky shales beneath  
  Mpulungkinya Track, Palm Valley, Finke Gorge National Park - 13th August 2006