| Scientific Name: | Rhapis excelsa |
| Common Name: | lady palm |
| Family Name: | Arecaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 1.5 - 2.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | |
| Leaves: | Compound, Spiraled, Leathery, Heavily veined, Parallel venation, Palmate venation, Lustrous, Elliptic, Serrulate |
| Flowers: | Panicle, Yellow, Green-yellow, Red, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), White, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems clustered, reed-like, course fibers; leaves eventually forming (3-)5-8(-11) elliptic leaflets (initially palmately deeply lobed), margins finely toothed, tips acute becoming truncate with age, about 30cm long x 2-3cm wide at centre. | |