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(Last Modified On 10/24/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/24/2012)
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WOODSONIA Bailey
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Gent. Herb. 6:262. 1943.
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Description
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Geonomoid pinnate-leaved monoecious palm with chaff-like flowers in a long narrow simple spadix like that of the grass Ammophila, the pistillate beneath or more or less between 2 pointed striate staminates, all of them only lightly im- mersed. on the rachis-; staminate flowers 6-7 mm. long in full bud, with short 3- pointed calyx cupulate at base, 3 long narrow pointed slightly imbricate petals free and hardly- united at base somewhat exceeded in anthesis by 6 long linear versatile conjoined anthers on separate filaments only moderately widened toward base, pistillode columnar with 3 pointed stigmas; pistillate flowers much shorter, envelopes imbricate and about equal in both series, ovary about 1.5 mm. long, somewhat oblate and narrowed into a conical part; albumen apparently ruminate.
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