Australian Plate south, is now being torn apart along the transform boundary marked by the Alpine Fault. South of New Zealand the boundary becomes a transitional transform-convergent boundary, the Macquarie Fault Zone, where the Australian Plate is beginning to subduct under the Pacific Plate along the Puysegur Trench. Extending southwest of this trench is the Macquarie Ridge. The southerly side is a divergent boundary with the Antarctic Plate called the Southeast Indian Ridge (SEIR). The subducting boundary through Indonesia is not parallel to the biogeographical Wallace line that separates the indigenous fauna of Asia from that of Australasia. The eastern islands of
Cyrtostachys renda Cyrtostachys renda Cyrtostachys renda, also known by the common names red sealing wax palm and lipstick palm, is a palm that is native to Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia. It is the only species of the genus "Cyrtostachys" that can be found to the west of the Wallace Line, the faunal boundary separating the ecozones of Asia and Wallacea. "Cyrtostachys renda"s name is derived from several words: the Greek prefix κυρτό- ("cyrto-") meaning bent or curved, the Greek word σταχυς ("stachys") meaning "an ear of grain", and "renda" a Malayan Aboriginal word for palm, which happens to be