list of figures - Terry Sunderland

Leaflet apex entire, terminating in a conspicuous apiculum: E.
cuspidata
Stem with sheaths ±1 cm in diameter; knee inconspicuous, linear, ridge-like; leaflets
conspicuously inequidistant, in groups, clustered or somewhat plumose: E.
quinquecostulata
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E. hookeri (G. Mann & H. Wendl.) H. Wendl.
Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), botanist, and former Director of the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew
H. Wendl. in Kerchove, Les Palmiers 244 (1878); Drude in Engl. Bot. Jarbh. 5: 131
(1895); C.H. Wright in F.T.A. 8: 112 (1901); Durand & Durand in Fl. Cong. 1: 585
(1909); Becc. in Webbia 3: 281 (1910); De Wild. in Pl. Thon. Cong. 2: 142 (1911);
Hutch. in F.W.T.A. 2: 391 (1936); Guinea-Lopez in Ensayo Geobot. de la Guinea
Cont. Espanola 245: (1946); Fosberg in Principes 4: 129 (1960); Irvine in Woody
Plants of Ghana 780 (1961); Russell in F.W.T.A. 2(3): 168 (1968); Letouzey in Adan.
18(3): 314 (1978); Morakinyo in Principes 39(4): 200 (1995); Tuley in Palms of
Africa 45: (1995); H.A. Burkill in Useful Pl. of W. Trop. Africa 4: 370 (1997); Cable
& M. Cheek in Pl. of Mt. Cam. 179: (1998).
Calamus (Eremospatha) hookeri G. Mann & H. Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 24: 434
(1864); Type: Nigeria, mouth of the River Niger, Mann 451 (holotype K!).
Clustering moderate to robust palm climbing to 30 m. Stems often branching, circular
in cross-section, without sheaths, 15-20 mm in diameter, with 20-30 mm; internodes
16-20 cm long, commonly less (10-12 cm). Leaf sheath longitudinally striate, sparsely
to profusely covered with caducous black indumentum, or indumentum absent; ocrea
entire, obliquely truncate, or with high rounded lobe adaxial to the rachis, often drying
grey-brown; knee linear, 1.5-3 cm long, somewhat abrupt at base. Juvenile stems up to
15m long; stem with sheath