It exhibits feather-shaped leaves, as compared to the fan-shaped leaves of the real fan palm.
Its fan-shaped leaves suggest those of the maidenhair fern.
Its common name comes from its curious behavior of constructing tents out of large, fan-shaped leaves.
Chelyocarpus ulei is a single-stemmed palm with fan-shaped leaves.
Generally these specimens sport impressive fan-shaped leaves, and can survive on lean rations and little water.
Now scientific attention is turning to the distinctive fan-shaped leaf of a tree so ancient that Darwin called it a "living fossil."
It is edged with dark-green, fan-shaped leaves, almost oriental.
It grows to 1 metre high and has fan-shaped leaves and bright red flowers that appear through the year.
The fan-shaped leaves are each made up of 7 to 10 narrow leaflets.
Ms. LeRiche picked up a fan-shaped leaf from the slushy ground.