Aphanamixis sumatrana
Content
Description
Pachycaul treelet 2–6 m; bole 2–10 cm diam., often unbranched.
Leaves 50–110 cm, 4–6-jugate; glabrous to rarely leaflets finely puberulous abaxially; petiole 10–25 cm, 6–8 mm diam., ± lenticellate, terete, greatly swollen and flattened adaxially at base.
Inflorescences to 110 cm in female, 50 cm in male where branches to 15 cm, subsquarrose; axes finely adpressed pubescent; bracteoles c. 1 mm long, triangular pedicels c. 1 mm long, stout.
Flowers c. 4 mm diam.
Petals c. 4 mm diam., subrotund, ± pu- berulous without, glabrous within, cream or pinkish.
Staminal tube with small pore; anthers 3, c. 3 mm long, boat-shaped, shortly apiculate, glabrous.
Capsules borne to- wards tip of axis, 2–4 cm diam., glabrous, red, white within.
Seeds 1–3, plano-convex.