list of figures - Terry Sunderland

horizontal, peduncle enclosed within the leaf sheath and emerging from the mouth,
flattened, not adnate to the internode, the surface glabrous or minutely to profusely
papillose; bracts throughout the inflorescence inconspicuous or somewhat more
conspicuous; prophyll absent although vestigial scar visible; peduncular bracts absent;
rachis somewhat longer or than the peduncle; rachis bracts low, triangular, striate,
opposite, alternate distally, sometimes united proximally to form an incomplete
sheathing collar; rachillae distichous, opposite proximally and subtended by a double
bract, becoming alternate distally, subtended by a single triangular bract, adnate to the
inflorescence axis a short distance above the bract, bearing ± distichous, minute,
triangular, incomplete bracts, each subtending a pair of equal flowers without
bracteoles. Flowers very pale in colour, becoming darker post-anthesis, moderately to
strongly fragrant; calyx thick, coriaceous, very shallowly 3-lobed distally, obscurely
veined, minutely papillose, corolla very thick, coriaceous, divided at the apex to ¼ to
1/3 its length into 3 short, triangular valvate lobes, remaining approximate, even at
anthesis, the lobes then separating slightly to reveal a discrete trilete opening; stamens
6, united into a fleshy epipetalous ring, clasping the gynoecium and occluding the
mouth of the flower, free filaments angled, very short, anthers enclosed within the
flower, ± medifixed, very short, somewhat sagittate, latrorse; pollen elliptic,
monosulcate, the sulcus extended, exine foveolate, tectate; gynoecium tricarpellate,
triovulate, rounded, covered in reflexed scales, tipped by a columnar or tapered, 3angled
style, apically with 3 stigmatic angles, ovule basally attached, anatropous. Fruit
1-3 seeded, stigmatic remains minute, apical, perianth whorls persistent; epicarp
covered in vertical rows of reddish-brown reflexed scales with fringed margins,
mesocarp fleshy at maturity, endocarp not differentiated, sarcotesta, when present,
very thin. Seed sub-basally attached, from the shape of 1/3 of a sphere to
hemispherical or ellipsoid (depending on the number of seeds developing), sometimes
slightly lobed or grooved, with a conspicuous abaxial ridge opposite the embryo, seed
coat thin, rarely fleshy, endosperm homogenous; embryo lateral. Germination
adjacent-ligular; eophyll bifid.
Distribution
Eremospatha is represented by ten species confined to the lowland (