[3] Seventeen years later, working with his countryman Carl Georg Oscar Drude, Wendland reviewed his description and gave the species the current combination.

[8] The native range of the Bangalow palm is from Mount Elliot, near Townsville in tropical Queensland, southwards in coastal and sub-coastal areas to Bateman's Bay in southern New South Wales.

[citation needed] They arrived in Australia via the landbridge created 45,000 years ago due to the receding ocean levels during the last glacial period, but the probable 'native' environment in prehistory was Indonesia.

[11] The Auckland Council has declared A. cunninghamiana to be a pest species, and has introduced restrictions on the movement of the plant within the Hauraki Gulf Controlled Area.

[12] In the United States, the palm is commonly cultivated in California from San Luis Obispo south to the Mexican border and in much of central and southern Florida.