Dypsis angustifolia (Dypsis angustifolia)
Description
Slender, clustering palm of the undergrowth. STEMS to 1 m. tall, 6-10 mm in diam., internodes 12-25 mm in diam., bearing scattered brown scales. LEAVES 6-7 in crown; sheaths 9-12 x 0.8 cm., tardily abscising, ± marcescent, striate, with scattered punctiform scales, auricles small, membranous, soon tattering; petiole 4-23 cm., about 2 mm. wide, ± triangular in cross section; blade entire bifid, distinctly plicate on drying, 28-50 cm, deeply cleft to about three quarters of the overall length, the two lobes 20-40 x 1.5-3 cm., occasionally one lobe further divided into 2 narrow leaflets, segment tips shallowly lobed, adaxially with scattered punctiform scales, abaxially paler and with abundant brown punctiform scales. INFLORESCENCES interfoliar, erect or curved, branched to 1 order only; peduncle 15-32 cm. long, about 1-2 mm in diam., sparsely covered with red scales in exposed portion; prophyll 10-25 x 0.5 cm., membranous, sparsely scaly; peduncular bract inserted far above and exceeding the prophyll by 5.5-9 cm., otherwise similar; rachis 3.5-10 cm., densely brown hairy; rachillae 5-9, inserted at right angles, 1-3 cm. long, about 2 mm in diam.; rachilla bracts inconspicuous, about 0.5 x 1 mm., almost entirely obscured by dense red-brown hairs.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum:
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Arecales
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Family: Arecaceae
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Genus: Dypsis
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