list of figures - Terry Sunderland

Laccosperma laeve (G. Mann & H. Wendl.) H. Wendl.
(Latin) “smooth”; refers to the smooth seeds
H. Wendl. in Kerchove, Les Palmiers 249: (1878); Küntze in Rev. Gen. Plant. 2:
729(1891); J. Dransf. in Kew Bull. 37(30): 456 (1982); Morakinyo in Principes 39(4):
205 (1994); Tuley in Palms of Africa 39: (1995); H.A. Burkill in Useful Pl. of W.
Trop. Africa 4: 373 (1997).
Ancistrophyllum laeve (G. Mann & H. Wendl.) Drude in Engl. Bot. Jar. 5:111 (1895);
C.H. Wright in Th. Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 7: 114 (1902); Becc. in Webbia 3: 261 (1910);
Hutch. in F.W.T.A. 2: 391 (1936); Guinea-Lopez in Ensayo Geobot. de la Guinea
Cont. Espanola 244: (1942); Walker & Sillans in Plantes Utiles du Gabon 324 (1961);
T.A. Russell in F.W.T.A. (2): 167 (1968); Aedo et al., Bases Docs. Flora de Guinea
Ecuatorial 375: (1999).
Calamus (subgen. Laccosperma) laevis G. Mann & H. Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 24:
430 (1864); Type: Gabon, Ogoué River, Mann 1045 (holotype K!).
Clustering slender palm climbing to 10-13 m. Stems often branching, without sheaths
to 16 mm in diameter, with c.20 mm; internodes 8-17 cm long. Leaf sheath
moderately to sparsely armed with black-tipped, pale brown spines, spreading or
lightly reflexed, upper sheaths near inflorescence more sparsely armed; black
caducous indumentum present on mature leaf sheaths; ocrea 8-20 cm long, gradually
tapering at the apex, pale straw-coloured without, shiny mid-brown within, armed as
the sheath. Leaves up to 1.5 m; petiole on lower leaves up to 18 cm long x 0.8 cm
wide, abaxially rounded, adaxially flattened, armed along the margins with angular,
inequidistant black tipped, bulbous-based spines up to 1.3 cm long, spreading or
reflexed; rachis up to 90 cm long, more commonly, 60 cm, distinctly trapezoid in
cross section at the base, rounded in cross-section distally, armed as the petiole, spines
decreasing in size distally and becoming regularly reflexed and increasingly bulbousbased;
cirrus up to 70 cm long, more commonly 50-60 cm, armed as the rachis;
leaflets composed of 2-4 folds, 10-12 pairs on each side of the rachis, inequidistant
and unequal in size, usually subequidistant proximally and borne in loose pairs
distally, sigmoid, 15-20 to 25-30 cm long x 3.5-6 to 8-10 cm broad at the widest point,
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