|
|
13. Calamus albidus L. X. Guo & A. J. Henderson, Brittonia. 59: 346. 2007.
狭叶省藤 xia ye sheng teng
Calamus oxycarpus Beccari var. angustifolius San Y. Chen & K. L. Wang, Acta Bot. Yunnan. 24: 201. 2002.
Stems clustered, climbing, to 6 m, to 3 cm in diam. Leaf sheaths with brown hairs, densely covered with gray or black, flattened spines to 2 cm; ocreas to 10 cm, spiny as sheath, fibrous, disintegrating; knees absent; flagella present; petioles 20-58 cm; rachis to 50 cm with 15 or 16 linear to lanceolate pinnae per side, these irregularly arranged in distant clusters of 2 or 3 pinnae, apical few pinnae in a fan shape, apical pair free; middle pinnae 17-27 cm, 1.5-2 cm wide at mid-point, margins minutely bristly, densely white waxy abaxially and with many minute spines; cirri absent. Inflorescences 1-2 m, flagellate; inflorescence bracts tubular. Fruits brownish, pear-shaped to ovoid, to 2.5 × 1.5 cm, scales with densely brown tomentose margins.
● Broad-leaved forests; 1000-1900 m. Yunnan.
A new epithet had to be given to this taxon when it was raised to species rank because of the existence of the earlier name Calamus angustifolius Griffith.
Related Links (opens in a new window) |
Other Databases
|
|
|
|
|
|
|