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E. tessmanniana Becc.<br />

Günther Tessmann (born ? - 1926) German botanist and anthropologist<br />

Becc. in Webbia 3: 278 (1910); Guinea-Lopez in Ensayo Geobot. de la Guinea Cont.<br />

Espanola 245: (1946); Letouzey in Adan. 18(3): 314 (1978); Aedo et al. in Bases<br />

Docs. Fl. de Guinea Ecuatorial 375: (1999). Type: Equatorial Guinea, Tessmann 4<br />

(holotype B†; isotype FI!).<br />

Clustering slender palm climbing up to 150 m, more commonly to 60-80 m. Stems,<br />

<strong>of</strong>ten branching, circular in cross-section, without sheaths 10-12 mm in diameter, with<br />

12-15 mm in diameter; internodes 15-20 cm long. Leaf sheath longitudinally striate,<br />

with black caducous indumentum; ocrea entire, horizontally truncate, extending to 1.5<br />

cm; knee absent. Juvenile stems with sheath, 0.6 cm in diameter; petiole angular, 15-<br />

17 cm long armed along the margins with reflexed, bulbous-based, black tipped<br />

spines; leaves bifid, 20 cm x 24 cm, deeply notched, with somewhat rounded lobes;<br />

elaminate rachis present on lower section <strong>of</strong> stems, up to 80 cm long. Leaves on<br />

mature stems sessile, or very nearly so (petiole

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