Licuala pumila (Licuala pumila)
Description
Solitary, acaulescent or with short stem no more than 1 m tall, about 1.5-2 cm in diameter, pale brown in colour. Leaves in the crown 10-14; sheaths brownish; petioles up to 1.5 m long, 5-7 mm wide near base, about 2.2 mm wide toward apex, greenish colour, with sparsely spines along less half of petiole, little and turn, claws shape, dense near base of petiole, about 3-4 mm long and 0.5-1 mm wide. Fronds orbicular, apex shallow dentate, radiately parted 7-14 or more up to 18, about 33 cm long, 41 cm wide, lateral segment 2-4 costulate, 31 x 4.5 cm, central segment entire, 4-7 costulate, 33 x 35 cm. Inflorescences shorter than leaves, erect to patent, 40-55 cm long with 2-3 partial inflorescences; branching to one order; one to two opposite branching in proximal part, the upper usually occupied by a single rachilla; peduncular bract lacking; peduncle tubular, flattened at the base, about 10 cm long, about 5 mm wide, glabrous, green in colour; rachis strongly flattened, glabrescent or sometime slightly puberulous; rachillae 4-5, about 5-10 x 2 cm size, covered with sparsely golden brown hairs, bracts about 4-7 cm. Flowers solitary, irregularly, sessile, bud size 6 x 2.5-3 mm; calyx cylindrical to cyathiform, about 4 x 3 mm, very slightly three toothed, base thickened, apex acuminate, glabrous, striate externally, green in colour; corolla coriaceus, triangular, tripartitus, about 5 x 3 mm, thick, glabrous, base thickened, apex acute, striate externally, deeply sculptured inside, whitish in colour; staminal ring membranous, filament subulate, anthers about 0.5 mm long, blunt; ovary turbinate, glabrous, sculptured above, about 2 mm long; style subulate, about 1 mm long. Fruit sub globose, about 9-10 x 8-9 mm, smooth, green in young and orange to red when mature.
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: Licuala
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