Tasi palm (Geonoma baculifera)
Description
Palm 2.3 (0.5-6.0) m tall; stems 1.6 (1.0-2.5) m tall, 1.6 (1.3-2.3) cm in diameter, solitary or clustered, canelike; internodes 4.1 (1.4-9.3) cm long, yellowish and smooth. Leaves 9 (6-11) per stem, undivided or irregularly pinnate, not plicate, bases of blades running diagonally into the rachis; sheaths 17.7 (11.0-30.0) cm long; petioles 18.0 (6.5-30.0) cm long, drying green or yellowish; rachis 56.2 (39.5?80.0) cm long, 4.2 (2.6-7.2) mm in diameter; veins raised and rectangular in cross-section adaxially; pinnae 2 (1-10) per side of rachis; basal pinna 55.4 (42.0-76.0) cm long, 17.2(6.7-33.0) cm wide, forming an angle of 20 (12-28)° with the rachis; apical pinna 28.8(14.0-39.5) cm long, 19.5(12.5-40.0) cm wide, forming an angle of 25 (20-35)° with the rachis. Inflorescences branched 1-2 orders;prophylls and peduncular bracts not ribbed with elongate, unbranched fibers, flattened, persistent; prophylls 24.2 (12.7-33.0) cm long, not short and asymmetrically apiculate, the surfaces ridged with close, equal, parallel, non-dividing ridges, scarcely tomentose between the ridges, without unequally wide ridges; peduncular bracts 23.6 (13.5-31.0) cm long, well-developed, inserted 2.8(1.2-7.0) cm above the prophyll; peduncles 29.1 (13.3-44.2) cm long, 4.0 (2.1-8.4) mm in diameter; rachillae 6(3-11), 16.7 (4.0-31.0) cm long, 3.2 (2.2-4.3) mm in diameter, the surfaces without spiky, fibrous projections or ridges, drying brown, with faint to pronounced, short, transverse ridges, not filiform and not narrowed between the flower pits; flower pits spirally arranged, glabrous internally; proximal lips without a central notch before anthesis,not recurved after anthesis, not hood-shaped; proximal and distal lips drying the same color as the rachillae, not joined to form a raised cupule, the proximal lip margins overlapping the distal lip margins; distal lips well-developed;
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: Geonoma
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