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Isotype of Moratia cerifera H.E.Moore [family ARECACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 May 2016

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K), K000736165
Collection
Herbarium Specimens
Resource Type
Specimens
Collector
Moore, H.E.Jr.; Morat, P., #10400
Collection Date
03-10-1978
Locality
slopes of Mount Panié
Country
New Caledonia (New Caledonia)
Collection altitude
152.40030483
Identifications
Cyphokentia cerifera (H.E.Moore) Pintaud & W.J.Baker [family ARECACEAE] (stored under name) Isotype of Moratia cerifera H.E.Moore [family ARECACEAE]
Notes
Single-stemmed; trunk orangish on new growth, becoming brown, ca. 4 m high, 11 cm in diam., nodal scars not prominent. Leaves 9, ascending with arcuate tip; sheath orangish with cover of white wax (melted in drying!), not enlarged at base, ca. 69 cm long; petiole green or orangish, short, 11-12 cm long; rachis 1.5 m long; pinnae ca. 33 on each side, green with yellow-green mid-rib and veins, lower pinnae ca. 96 cm long, 4.3 cm wide, apical pinnae ca. 30 cm long, 0.8 cm wide. Inflorescence orangish-green with a gray cast to bluish-green, spreading; peduncle 5 cm long, bearing a completely encircling prophyll, this gray waxy over an orange base (wax melted in drying!), ca. 64 cm long, 20 cm wide, enclosing peduncular bract; rachis ca. 43 cm long, rachis 34 cm long, rachillae to 62 cm long. Flowers reddish in bud; immature fruit green, nearly globose. Moist forest Pollen taken from this specimen for study at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Date Updated: 19 May 2016

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K), K000736165
Collection
Herbarium Specimens
Resource Type
Specimens
Collector
Moore, H.E.Jr.; Morat, P., #10400
Collection Date
03-10-1978
Locality
slopes of Mount Panié
Country
New Caledonia (New Caledonia)
Collection altitude
152.40030483
Identifications
Cyphokentia cerifera (H.E.Moore) Pintaud & W.J.Baker [family ARECACEAE] (stored under name) Isotype of Moratia cerifera H.E.Moore [family ARECACEAE]
Notes
Single-stemmed; trunk orangish on new growth, becoming brown, ca. 4 m high, 11 cm in diam., nodal scars not prominent. Leaves 9, ascending with arcuate tip; sheath orangish with cover of white wax (melted in drying!), not enlarged at base, ca. 69 cm long; petiole green or orangish, short, 11-12 cm long; rachis 1.5 m long; pinnae ca. 33 on each side, green with yellow-green mid-rib and veins, lower pinnae ca. 96 cm long, 4.3 cm wide, apical pinnae ca. 30 cm long, 0.8 cm wide. Inflorescence orangish-green with a gray cast to bluish-green, spreading; peduncle 5 cm long, bearing a completely encircling prophyll, this gray waxy over an orange base (wax melted in drying!), ca. 64 cm long, 20 cm wide, enclosing peduncular bract; rachis ca. 43 cm long, rachis 34 cm long, rachillae to 62 cm long. Flowers reddish in bud; immature fruit green, nearly globose. Moist forest Pollen taken from this specimen for study at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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4
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