list of figures - Terry Sunderland

A. secundiflorum sensu Mildbr. in Notizbl. Bot. Gar. Dah. App. XXVII:16 (1913);
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. 3(2):167
(1968) partim non Burr.; Letouzey in Adansonia 2(18): 314 (1978); Letouzey in Man.
For. Bot. Trop. Afr. 2B:401 (1986); Aedo et al. Bases docs. Fl. de Guinea Ecuatorial
375 (1999).
Clustering robust palm climbing to 30-45 m. Stems without sheaths 30-50 mm in
diameter, with 45-60 mm; internodes 35-50 cm long, although more commonly 18-25
cm. Leaf sheath moderately to profusely armed with black-tipped finely triangular,
upward pointing or spreading spines; sheaths on upper portion of stem more sparsely
armed; juvenile sheaths particularly profusely armed; dense brown-black indumentum
present on mature sheaths, more sparse on juvenile sheaths; ocrea 20-30 cm long, dry,
gradually tapering at the apex, reflexed, tattering longitudinally and disintegrating,
dark tan mid-brown without, crimson-brown within, armed as the sheath although
spines often concentrated at the apex, particularly on juvenile sheaths. Leaves up to
3.5m long; petiole 5-12 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide, mid to dark green with scattered
brown-black indumentum, particularly on upper surface, abaxially rounded, adaxially
lightly to moderately concave proximally becoming flattened in cross section distally,
armed along the margins with inequidistant black-tipped angular spines up to 1.4 cm
long, spreading in many directions; rachis 1.5-2 m long, shaped as the petiole,
becoming more trapezoid in cross section then triangular in cross-section distally,
armed as the petiole proximally, spines becoming more sparse distally, with sparse
brown indumentum present below; cirrus up to 1.5-2 m. long, triangular in cross
section, only very sparsely armed with reflexed bulbous-based black-tipped spines,
sparse brown indumentum below; leaflets always composed of a single-fold, 45-65 on
each side of the rachis, equidistant, opposite to sub-opposite proximally, inequidistant,
alternate distally, papyraceous, conspicuously pendulous, finely linear-lanceolate,
base abruptly contracted, apex broadly to finely acuminate, often breaking off, 30-45
cm long (commonly up to 60 cm) 1.2-2.8 cm broad at the widest point, ± concolorous,
glaucous blue-green, margins armed with inequidistant exceptionally fine, 5-8mmlong,
forward facing curved or angular black-tipped spines; 1 costulate midrib armed
as the margins although spines much longer.; acanthophylls 4.5-5 cm long.
Inflorescences, numbering 6-12 produced simultaneously in the distal 1.5-2.2m
114