Brahea salvadorensis (Brahea salvadorensis)
Description
They are erect palms, solitary, strong, of medium size, armed, frequently in small colonies; with columnar stems , up to 6 m high or often acaulescent, bare or covered below the crown with the remains of the pods of deciduous leaves; hermaphrodite plants . Leaves with almost orbicular lamina, very short-sided-webbed, with 70 deeply bifid segments; segments 85 cm long and 1-2 cm wide, initially lepidoto-tomentose with pelt-fimbriated deciduous scales, principal nerves initially flocoso-furfuraceous; sheath unarmed, glabrous, reddish, with soft fibers, dividing into a network of fibers, petioleelongate, slightly convex adaxially, irregularly convex abaxially, initially furfuraceo-lanado-lepidoto, armed with acute and curved marginal teeth, extending towards the lamina base, thickly membranous ligule on the adaxial side. Inflorescences 100-150 cm long, interfoliar, equaling or exceeding the leaves, erect or arched, thin, immediately divided into series of hanging branch units, tubular bracts ca 7, rigid, red, opening obliquely at the apex, sheathing the peduncleand at the base of the primary branches, primary branches 70 cm long; ruffles 8-18 cm long, white-tomentose, glabrescent when in fruit, flowers 5-6 mm long, in glomeruli of (1-) 2-3 on slightly raised bracteolate pulvinids; sepals free, glabrous on the margins, sparsely pubescent on the lower half, without scarious margins; free petals , valvated, reflexed in the anthesis, glabrous or with a tuft of trichomes at the base, dorsally subtomentose or glabrous; stamens 6. Fruitssubglobose, blackish, subapical stigmatic residue, smooth exocarp when mature, pubescent when young, fleshy mesocarp, thin endocarp, often attached to the seed; globose or subglobose seed, homogeneous endosperm, with deep intrusions, lateral embryo, simple eophyte.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Arecales
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Family: Arecaceae
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Genus: Brahea
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