list of figures - Terry Sunderland

portion of stem; peduncle 12-20 cm long; prophyll ± 15 cm long; rachis branches up
to 50 cm long, perpendicular to the main axis; rachis bracts glabrous, 1.5-1.8 cm long,
decreasing distally, dry throughout, covered in dense brown-black indumentum,
tapering to form a truncate triangular lobe abaxially, closely adpressed to the bract
above; rachillae 18-25 cm long, pendulous, rachillae bracts campanulate-cylindrical, ±
5 mm long, dry throughout, triangular to broadly acuminate adaxially, each with a
wide opening and a 1.5 m.-long apiculum. Flowers in dyads, rarely triads, at anthesis
± 1 cm x 2.5-3.0 mm wide; calyx ± 6 mm long, excluding 1-1.5 mm long angular
stalk, 2.5-3 mm wide, tubular in the basal 4 mm only, with 3 dark-tan, lightly striate,
rounded to triangular, rarely acuminate, apex, 3.5 x 3 mm; corolla, tubular in the basal
2 mm only, with 3 valvate lobes c.7 x 2 mm, white or cream, with a bluntly acuminate
apex; stamen filaments, brown, fleshy, angular, 3 mm x 1 mm broad, united into 1.5
mm-long basal tube; anthers 3 mm x 1 mm broad; ovary ± 1 mm in diameter, stigma
up to 5 mm. Fruit at maturity ovoid; 1- (rarely 2-) seeded, 1.2-1.5 cm x 0.8-1.2 cm,
with 17-20 vertical rows of scales. Seed smooth, ovoid, with lightly scalloped
depression on one side, 0.8-1.3 cm long x 0.6-0.8 cm wide x 0.5 cm thick.
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