list of figures - Terry Sunderland

own indumentum below; leaflets composed of 2-4-folds, 25-40 on each side of the
rachis, equidistant, often variable in width, arching from the rachis, not strictly
pendulous, sigmoid, elongate, leaflet apex very finely acuminate with tip often
breaking off, 35-45 cm long x 3-8 cm broad at the widest point, concolorous or
somewhat discolorous with a darker green adaxial surface, leaflet margin armed with
fine to robust, 1-2 mm-long, forward-facing, equidistant black-tipped spines, 1,2 or 3
costulate, each vein armed as the leaflet margin; acanthophylls, up to 4 cm long.
Inflorescences, numbering 6-10, produced simulataneously in the distal 1-1.8 m
portion of stem; peduncle 15-20 cm long; prophyll 8-10 cm; rachis branches 25-35 cm
long, perpendicular to the main axis; rachis bracts 2.5-3 cm long, decreasing distally,
dry, often tattering, tapering to form an elongate acutely triangular lobe on the abaxial
side, closely adpressed to the bract above, covered with a dense brown indumetum;
rachillae 15-25 cm long, pendulous, densely covered with imbricate bracts c.7 mm
long, dry and triangular at apex, each with a wide opening and a 1.5 mm-long
apiculum. Flowers at anthesis 1-1.2 cm x 3.0-3.5 mm; calyx 5-5.5 mm long, excluding
angular 3 mm-long stalk, 3-3.5 mm wide, dark tan coloured, tubular in the basal 1.5-2
mm, with 3 longitudinally-striate or mottled rounded to bluntly triangular lobes ± 4.5
mm x 3 mm; corolla tubular in the basal 1 mm only, with 3 valvate lobes, white or
pale cream, longitudinally striate or mottled, ± 9 mm x 2 mm with a bluntly acuminate
tip; stamen filaments dark brown, 4 mm x 1 mm, united into a 2 mm-long basal tube;
anthers 3 mm x 1 mm; ovary c.1 mm in diameter, stigma up to 5 mm long. Fruit
ovoid, 1.8-2 cm x 1.3-1.5 cm, with 18-22 vertical rows of scales. Seed smooth, ovoid,
1-1.2 cm long, 0.8-1.2 cm wide, 0.5-0.7 mm deep, lightly flattened on one side.
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