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Specimens examined<br />

CAMEROON: Mildbraed 5285, sterile, May 20, 1911 (HBG!); Mildbraed 5879, Ebolowa<br />

(02.55N:11.08E) sterile, s.d. (HBG!); <strong>Sunderland</strong> 2021, Takamanda Forest Reserve (06.08N:09.16E)<br />

sterile, January 11, 1999 (K!, SCA!); <strong>Sunderland</strong> 2017, Takamanda Forest Reserve (06.08N:09.16E)<br />

sterile, January 17, 1999 K!, SCA!; EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Tessmann 4, sterile, s.d. (FI!)<br />

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E. cuspidata (G. Mann & H. Wendl.) H. Wendl.<br />

(Latin) refers to finely apiculate leaflet apex<br />

H. Wendl. in Kerchove Les Palmiers 244: (1878); C.H. Wright in F.T.A. 8: 112<br />

(1901); Durand & Durand in Fl. Congolanae 1: 585 (1909); Becc. in Webbia 3: 275<br />

(1910); Pyneart in Bull. Agric. du Congo Belge 2: 547 (1911); Hédin in Rev. de Bot.<br />

Appl. 9: 504 (1929); Guinea-Lopez in Ensayo Geobot. de la Guinea Cont. Espanola<br />

245: (1946); Letouzey in Adan. 18(3): 314 (1978); Tuley in Palms <strong>of</strong> Africa 51:<br />

(1995).<br />

Calamus (Eremospatha) cuspidatus G. Mann & H. Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 24:<br />

434 (1864); Type: Gabon, Ogooué River, Mann 1043 (holotype K!).<br />

Clustering slender palm climbing to 12-15m. Stems circular in cross-section, without<br />

sheaths, 10-15 mm in diameter, with 16-25 mm; internodes 11-15 cm long. Leaf<br />

sheath longitudinally striate sparsely covered with brown-black indumentum; ocrea<br />

obliquely truncate, extending c.1 cm above the rachis; knee absent. Leaves sessile, up<br />

to 2 m long; rachis 1-1.3 m long, flattened on upper surface, rounded below, becoming<br />

trapezoid then rounded in cross section distally, armed along the margins with<br />

inequidistant, reflexed, bulbous-based spines, becoming sparsely armed distally,<br />

indumentum absent; cirrus 50-75 cm long, unarmed; leaflets up to 15-20 on each side<br />

<strong>of</strong> the rachis, linear-lanceolate, abruptly contracted at the base, with a fine 0.8-1.2 cm<br />

long (rarely 3 cm long) apiculum at the apex, 22-30 cm long x 1.6-2 (rarely 3 cm)<br />

broad at the widest point, discolorous, adaxially mid-green, abaxially light green,<br />

armed along the margins with inequidistant abrupt black-tipped spines, 5-7<br />

moderately conspicuous transverse veinlets 2-3 mm apart; lowermost leaflets smaller<br />

than the rest, linear-ovate, reflexed and laxly swept back across stem; acanthophylls in<br />

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