Synechanthus
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Synechanthus (Greek, continuous and flower, alluding to the arrangement of the infl.). Palmaceae. Unarmed gregarious palms, grown in the warmhouse: trunk slender, annulate, often stoloniferous: lvs. terminal, equally pinnatisect, segms. broad or narrow, membranaceous, acuminate, plicately nerved: spadices several, long- and slender - peduncled, the floriferous erect; spathes several, tubular, membranaceous, persistent: fls. green or the male purplish, minute, arranged in 1-2 rows in alternate elongated groups, the superior in the groups male, the inferior female: fr. reddish yellow, shining, ellipsoid, 1-seeded. Three species, Cent. Amer. and Colombia. S. fibrosus, Wendl. Trunk 4 ft. high, green: lvs. 4 ft. long, erect and spreading; lfts. numerous, 1 – 1 1/2 ft. long, spreading and rather pendulous, linear-lanceolate: spadices one-third as long as the lvs., the branches many, very slender, forked: fr. orange-red. Cent. Amer. B.M. 6572. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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