list of figures - Terry Sunderland

E. wendlandiana Dammer ex Becc.
Hermann Wendland (1825-1903) German palm botanist and horticulturist
Becc. in Webbia 3: 290 (1910); Hutch. in F.W.T.A. 2: 391 (1936); Guinea-Lopez in
Ensayo Geobot. de la Guinea Cont. Espanola 245: (1946); Russell in F.W.T.A. 2(3):
168 (1968); Letouzey in Adan. 18(3): 314 (1978); Letouzey in Man. For. Bot. Trop.
Afr. 2B: 401 (1986); Morakinyo in Principes 39(4): 204 (1995); Tuley in Palms of
Africa 45: (1995); Cable & M. Cheek in Pl. of Mt. Cam. 179: (1998; Type:
Cameroon, Lake Barombi, Preuss 460 (holotype B†; isotype FI!).
Eremospatha korthalsiaefolia Becc. Webbia 3: 292 (1910); Walker & Sillans in
Plantes Utilès du Gabon 333: (1961); synon. nov. Type: Cameroon, Akoafim near
Ebolowa, Dusen 292 (holotype B†; isotype FI!).
Clustering moderate to robust palm climbing to 60 m. Stems ± circular in crosssection,
without sheaths 12-20 mm, with 15-30 mm; internodes up to 30 cm long. Leaf
sheath only very lightly striate, with sparse to moderate caducous black indumentum;
ocrea drying brown and splitting longitudinally, sometimes with horizontal linear
wrinkle opposite the leaf, extending to up to 8 cm; knee conspicuous, narrowly-linear,
up to 5-12 cm long, tapering at base. Leaves sessile; rachis up to 2m long, abaxially
rounded, adaxially flattened or slightly concave on upper surface, becoming rounded
then triangular in cross-section distally, armed along the margins with inequidistant,
reflexed, bulbous-based, black-tipped spines, with sparse black indumentum below;
cirrus up to 2 m long, armed as the rachis, although spines becoming sparse distally,
indumentum absent; leaflets up to 20 on each side of the rachis, strictly rhomboid or
trapezoid with conspicuously straight margins, broadly attenuate at the base, broadly
and irregularly praemorse at apex, very variable in size 12-22 cm long x 8-17 cm
broad at the widest point; concolorous, armed along the margins with 2 mm long,
robust, slightly reflexed, black-tipped spines, praemorse apex somewhat ciliate spiny;
with 5-9 main veins radiating from the base; acanthophylls 2-2.5 cm long, somewhat
slender, at 30° angle to cirrus. Inflorescence glabrous, up to 80 cm long, peduncle up
to 30 cm long; rachis up to 50 cm long, arching, rachis bracts incomplete, 1.5-2 cm
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