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Fayaz, F. (2011) Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants Firefly Books, New Zealand
Palms. Solitary, stems erect; unarmed; forming prominent crownshaft, green and smooth. Leaves petiole unarmed; lamina pinnate, plication reduplicate; segments linear-lanceolate, in more than 1 plane. Inflorescence axillary below the crown of leaves, paniculate with 2 or 3 orders of branching; flowers sessile in triads. Flowers: sepals 3, imbricate, membranous; petals 3, valvate. Fruit a drupe, fibrous, stigmatic scar basal; exocarp ripening from green to red to purplish-black, thin leathery; mesocarp fleshy oily; endocarp hard. Seeds 1 nearly globose, dorsiventrally compressed. Worldwide: 11 species in Florida, Central and South America and the West Indies. Mozambique: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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