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Palmae

Descriptors
  1. *Bracts subtending rachilla: relation
    1. shorter than rachilla
  2. *Endosperm: form
    1. homogeneous
    2. ruminate
  3. *Epicarp scales (live material): colour
    1. green-brown
    2. orange-brown
    3. other
    4. pale brown
  4. *Flowering: expression
    1. hermaphroditic
  5. *Fruit: exudate
    1. without dragon's blood
  6. *Fruit: shape when mature
    1. globose
    2. obovoid
    3. ovoid
    4. turbinate
  7. *Habit: form
    1. Climber
  8. *Inflorescence: flowering behaviour
    1. hapaxanthic
  9. *Inflorescence: position
    1. suprafoliar
  10. *Inflorescence: relative length
    1. shorter than leaves
  11. *Inflorescence: terminal form
    1. not flagelliform
  12. *Inflorescences: rooting
    1. not rooting at tips
  13. *Knee (leaf sheath): presence
    1. without knee
  14. *Lamina (living): abaxial surface colour
    1. bluish-grey
    2. brown
    3. chalky-white
    4. orange-brown
    5. other
  15. *Lamina scales: colour
    1. brown
  16. *Lamina scales: presence
    1. absent
    2. present abaxially
  17. *Lamina: indumentum
    1. with indumentum
    2. without indumentum
  18. *Lamina: spinules (minute spines)
    1. without spinules
  19. *Leaf rachis: armature
    1. armed
  20. *Leaf rachis: hairs
    1. without hairs
  21. *Leaf rachis: indumentum
    1. with indumentum
    2. without indumentum
  22. *Leaf rachis: relative length
    1. 2-3 times as long as petiole
  23. *Leaf sheath indumentum: persistence
    1. deciduous
    2. persistent
  24. *Leaf sheath indumentum: presence
    1. absent
    2. abundant
    3. scattered
  25. *Leaf sheath mouth: spines
    1. spines scarcely different from the rest
    2. spines sparse or absent
  26. *Leaf sheath scales: colour
    1. black
    2. chocolate-brown
  27. *Leaf sheath scales: persistence
    1. deciduous
  28. *Leaf sheath scales: presence
    1. absent
    2. present
  29. *Leaf sheath spines (excluding mouth spines): size
    1. less than 1cm long
    2. up to 3cm long (max)
    3. up to 8cm long (max)
  30. *Leaf sheath spines: arrangement
    1. grouped
    2. not grouped
  31. *Leaf sheath spines: base
    1. not conspicuously bulbous-based
  32. *Leaf sheath spines: colour of base
    1. not yellow
  33. *Leaf sheath spines: curvature
    1. not reflexed
  34. *Leaf sheath spines: group arrangements
    1. in irregular groups
    2. in partial whorls
  35. *Leaf sheath spines: margins
    1. with smooth margins
  36. *Leaf sheath spines: orientation
    1. horizontal
    2. pointing in several directions
  37. *Leaf sheath spines: persistence
    1. persistent
  38. *Leaf sheath spines: presence
    1. absent
    2. abundant
    3. sparse
  39. *Leaf sheath spines: shape
    1. needle-like
    2. short, triangular (<1cm long)
    3. slender, tapering or undulate (>3 cm long)
    4. triangular (not tapering) (1cm< x < 3cm long)
  40. *Leaf sheath spines: shape in T.S.
    1. flattened
  41. *Leaf sheath spines: types
    1. of mixed sizes
    2. of uniform size
  42. *Leaf sheath: colour
    1. other
    2. reddish-brown
  43. *Leaf sheath: flagellum
    1. without flagellum
  44. *Leaf sheath: hairs or spicules
    1. with caducous rigid hairs or spicules
    2. without rigid hairs or spicules
  45. *Leaf sheath: surface
    1. without horizontal ridges
  46. *Leaf: cirrus
    1. cirrate
  47. *Leaf: lamina colour
    1. not mottled
  48. *Leaflet apex: shape
    1. praemorse
  49. *Leaflet bristles: presence
    1. absent
    2. present at apex only
  50. *Leaflet margins: form
    1. entire
    2. praemorse
  51. *Leaflet midribs: golen bristles
    1. without golden bristles
  52. *Leaflet midribs: prominence
    1. prominent on both surfaces
    2. similar to other veins
  53. *Leaflet: plication
    1. conspicuously plicate
    2. scarcely plicate
  54. *Leaflets (individual): max width
    1. > 2cm but < 5cm wide
    2. more than 6cm wide
    3. not exceeding 2cm wide
  55. *Leaflets (not grouped): arrangement
    1. regular
    2. subregular
  56. *Leaflets (single pair): fusion
    1. scarcely joined or free
  57. *Leaflets: arrangement
    1. not grouped
  58. *Leaflets: colour
    1. discolorous
  59. *Leaflets: divarication
    1. not divaricate
  60. *Leaflets: insertion
    1. sessile
    2. stalked (with ansa)
  61. *Leaflets: number
    1. 1 > x < 10 on each side of rachis
    2. 11 > x < 39 on each side of rachis
  62. *Leaflets: orientation
    1. (more or less) in one plane
  63. *Leaflets: shape
    1. lanceolate
    2. rhomboid
  64. *Leaflets: venation
    1. parallel
    2. radiating
  65. *Lowest leaflets: orientation
    1. not reflexed across stem
  66. *Ocrea: ant association
    1. with ant association
    2. without ant association
  67. *Ocrea: armature
    1. armed
    2. unarmed
  68. *Ocrea: character
    1. disintegrating or tattering
    2. net-like
    3. remaining entire
  69. *Ocrea: position
    1. diverging at an angle
    2. not diverging at an angle
  70. *Ocrea: presence
    1. present
  71. *Ocrea: size
    1. >11mm but < 30mm
    2. less than 10 mm
    3. up to 1 m
  72. *Partial inflorescences: presence
    1. present
  73. *Petiole base: auricles
    1. without auricles
  74. *Petiole spines: arrangement
    1. regularly arranged in groups
    2. regularly arranged, not grouped
  75. *Petiole: armature
    1. armed
    2. unarmed
  76. *Petiole: blotchiness
    1. evenly coloured
  77. *Petiole: indumentum
    1. with indumentum
    2. without indumentum
  78. *Petiole: presence
    1. present
  79. *Prophyll: relation
    1. not enclosing inflorescence at maturity
  80. *Rachilla bracts: net-like
    1. not net-like
  81. *Rachillae (pistillate): arrangement
    1. not congested
  82. *Rachillae: armature
    1. unarmed
  83. *Rachillae: colour
    1. other
    2. red or reddish brown
  84. *Seed: shape
    1. ovoid
  85. *Shoots
    1. Clustering
  86. *Stem (with sheath): diammeter
    1. < 10mm
    2. > 40mm
    3. >11mm but < 39mm
  87. *Stem: branching
    1. branching in canopy
  88. *Substrate
    1. Fresh-Water Swamp
    2. Ultramafic
    3. White Sand
  89. *Terminal leaflets: fusion
    1. more or less free
  90. *Vegetation
    1. Hill Rainforest
    2. Lowland rainforest
    3. Monsoon
  91. Leaf sheath mouth: spines
    1. with spines similar to those of the leaf sheath
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