Geonoma cuneata minor (Geonoma cuneata minor)

Description

Palm 1.4 (0.3-2.5) m tall; stems 0.7 (0.1-3.0) m tall, 1.5 (0.4-3.4) cm in diameter, solitary or clustered, not cane-like or cane-like; internodes 0.9 (0.2-2.2) cm long, yellowish and smooth, or, if short and congested, not scaly. Leaves 10 (4-17) per stem, undivided or irregularly pinnate, not plicate, bases of blades running diagonally into the rachis; sheaths 20.0 (9.0-51.0) cm long; petioles 30.7 (0.2-113.5) cm long, drying orangebrown, reddish-brown, or green or yellowish; rachis 46.4 (12.0-250.0) cm long, 4.1 (1.3-9.0) mm in diameter; veins raised and rectangular in cross-section adaxially or not raised or slightly raised and triangular in crosssection adaxially; pinnae 3 (1-35) per side of rachis; basal pinna 32.7 (12.5-68.0) cm long, 5.8 (0.3-21.5) cm wide, forming an angle of 31(3?95)° with the rachis; apical pinna 22.9(8.5-44.0) cm long, 10.7(1.5?37.0) cm wide, forming an angle of 31 (10-50)° with the rachis. Inflorescences unbranched; prophylls and peduncular bracts ribbed with elongate, unbranched fibers, both bracts tubular, narrow, elongate, closely sheathing the peduncle, more or less persistent; prophylls 16.5 (4.0-38.0) cm long, not short and asymmetrically apiculate, the surfaces not ridged, without unequally wide ridges; peduncular bracts 32.6 (16.5-67.0) cm long, well-developed, inserted 1.4 (0.4-5.7) cm above the prophyll; peduncles 51.3 (13.7-117.0) cm long, 3.0 (1.1-8.2) mm in diameter; rachillae 1, 20.4(5.5-52.0) cm long, 5.4(1.9-10.5) mm in diameter, the surfaces without spiky, fibrous projections or ridges, drying brown or yellow-brown, without short, transverse ridges, not filiform and not narrowed between the flower pits; flower pits spirally arranged, glabrous internally; proximal lips pits with a central notch before anthesis, often the two sides of the notch overlapping, 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; staminate and pistillate petals not emergent, not valvate throughout; staminate flowers persistent or deciduous after anthesis; stamens 6; thecae diverging at anthesis, inserted almost directly onto the filament apices, the connectives bifid but scarcely developed; anthers short and curled over at anthesis; non-fertilized pistillate flowers persistent or deciduous after anthesis; staminodial tubes crenulate or shallowly lobed at the apex, those of non-fertilized flowers not projecting and persistent after anthesis; fruits 7.6 (5.0?11.6) mm long, 5.4 (4.4-6.5) mm in diameter, the bases without a prominent stipe, the apices not conical, the surfaces not splitting at maturity, without fibers emerging, ridged from the numerous, subepidermal, meridional, elongate fibers present, these coming to a point at fruit apices; locular epidermis without operculum, smooth or sculpted and then usually also with a raised, meridional ridge, without pores. (Henderson, A.J. 2011)/Palmweb. Editing by edric.