Dragon scale palm (Guihaia grossifibrosa)
Description
Clustering fan palm to about 1.8 m tall; stem erect or decumbent, about 1 m tall, 23 cm in diam. Leaves several in crown; sheath tubular, prolonged into a triangular tongue-like lobe to 10 cm opposite the petiole, distintegrating into a lattice of broad flat fibers but the margins remaining entire; petiole usually 40-50 cm long, the longest up to 1.8 m, ca. 3-4 mm wide, ± hemispherical in cross-section, unarmed, bearing scattered caducous scales; adaxial hastula rounded, about 6 mm x 6 mm, fringed with caducous hairs; lamina to about 35 cm in diam. at the mid-line, divided to about 'Ys or almost to the insertion into, about 10-21 single-fold (rarely two-fold) reduplicate segments up to about 15 mm wide, the outermost segments very narrow, the segment tips very briefly bifid, adaxial surface glabrous, abaxial surface slightly paler, with very sparse dot-like scales; transverse veinlets short, conspicuous. Inflorescences 80 cm long, with 25 partial inflorescences branching to the 4th order; peduncle to about 40 cm long bearing a single
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum:
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Arecales
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Family: Arecaceae
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Genus: Guihaia
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