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Raphia farinifera

Jos Stevens
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JSPC
Raphia farinifera [family ARECACEAE]

Raphia farinifera

Jos Stevens
Photographs
JSPC
Raphia farinifera [family ARECACEAE]

Raphia farinifera

Jos Stevens
Photographs
JSPC
Raphia farinifera [family ARECACEAE]

Raphia farinifera

Jos Stevens
Photographs
JSPC
Raphia farinifera [family ARECACEAE]

Raphia farinifera

Jos Stevens
Photographs
JSPC
Raphia farinifera [family ARECACEAE]

Raphia farinifera Gaertn.; portion of spadix

Unknown
Artifacts
K
Raphia farinifera Gaertn. [family ARECACEAE]

Raphia farinifera Gaertn.; fruits

Unknown
Artifacts
K
Raphia farinifera Gaertn. [family ARECACEAE]

Raphia farinifera Gaertn. from Madagascar

Dransfield, John
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K
Raphia farinifera Gaertn. [family ARECACEAE]

Raphia farinifera Gaertn. from Madagascar

Dransfield, John
Photographs
K
Raphia farinifera Gaertn. [family ARECACEAE]

Raphia farinifera Gaertn. from Madagascar

Dransfield, John
Photographs
K
Raphia farinifera Gaertn. [family ARECACEAE]

Raphia mambillensis Otedoh [family PALMAE]

Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol 4
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
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Raphia farinifera (Gaertn.) Hylander [family PALMAE]

Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 3, Part 1,
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
This species, widely distributed in E. and Central Africa, is represented in highland W. Cameroun by a form without a clear trunk, but producing a great cluster of fronds at ground-level, or on a very short stem covered by petioles;common near villages at the edge of water courses, the midribs providing the chief local material for house building.

RAPHIA Ruffia Mart. [family PALMAE]

Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 8, page 97, (1902) Author: (By C. H. Wright.)
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Reference Sources
Stem 6–26 ft. high, 1 ft. thick. Leaves up to 65 ft. long; petiole up to 13 ft. long, 10 lin. thick. Calyx of male flowers pedicelled. Fruit obovate or pyriform, somewhat depressed and mucronate at the apex; scales in 12–15 rows, very convex, polished, chestnut-brown, adpressedly ciliate.