┌1A. | Shingle climber (petiolePetiole: Leaf stem.
much shorter than laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
, laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
appressed to substrate) .. 2
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│ | ┌2A. | Leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
cordiform, chartaceous, base cordateCordate:
, posteriorPosterior:
lobes overlapping; primary venationVenation: The arrangement of veins in the leaf.
strongly reticulateReticulate: Reticulate Venation.
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│ | │ | ┌3A. | Primary venationVenation: The arrangement of veins in the leaf.
conspicuously silver-grey; inflorescences arising front behind appressed shingling leaves, carried on abbreviated shoots arising from the leaf axil. Papua New Guinea (not known with certainty) .. 📌5. Rhaphidophora cryptantha
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│ | │ | └3B. | Primary venationVenation: The arrangement of veins in the leaf.
not silver grey; plant never flowering in the shingling phase. Indonesian Papua, Papua New Guinea (including New Ireland) .. 📌29. Rhaphidophora versteegii (Juvenile phase)
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│ | ├2B. | Leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
variously shaped (not cordiform), membranous to stiffly coriaceousCoriaceous: Resembling or having the texture of leather.
, base slightly cordateCordate:
to truncate; primary venationVenation: The arrangement of veins in the leaf.
pinnatePinnate: Pinnate Venation.
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│ | │ | ┌4A. | Leaf lanmina membranous, with c. 3 prominent veinVein: Venation types: A. midrib; B. primary lateral veins; C. interprimaray veins; D. secondary veins; E. collective veins; F. tertiary veins; G. basal ribs; H. basal veins.
s per side, these running from near the base to the upper margin or tip and crossing over the reticulateReticulate: Reticulate Venation.
minor venationVenation: The arrangement of veins in the leaf.
; plant never flowering in the shingling phase. Throughout region .. .. 📌16. Rhaphidophora korthalsii Uuvenile phase)
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│ | │ | ├4B. | Leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
coriaceousCoriaceous: Resembling or having the texture of leather.
to stiffly coriaceousCoriaceous: Resembling or having the texture of leather.
, without prominent veinVein: Venation types: A. midrib; B. primary lateral veins; C. interprimaray veins; D. secondary veins; E. collective veins; F. tertiary veins; G. basal ribs; H. basal veins.
s running from the base to the upper margin or tip; plant fertile in the shingling phase .. 5
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│ | │ | │ | ┌5A. | Leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
of flowering shoots with base truncate; spadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
stoutly cigar-shaped, shortly stipitateStipitate: Having a stalk or stem.
, inserted +/- level on stipeStipe: A stalk or stem.
; stipeStipe: A stalk or stem.
4-6 x 3-3.5 mm; stigmaStigma: The receptive tip of a carpel, or of several fused carpels, in the gynoecium of a flower.
elongated, longitudinally orientated; plant with disarticulating side shoots functioning as vegetative propagation units. Indonesian Papua, Papua New Guinea [including New Britain, New Ireland, Bougainville and Muyua (Woodlark) Island], and Australia (Eastern tropical Queensland) .. 📌11. Rhaphidophora hayi
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│ | │ | │ | └5B. | Leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
of flowering shoots with base acute to cuneateCuneate:
; spadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
narrowly cigar-shaped, long stipitateStipitate: Having a stalk or stem.
, inserted obliquely on stipeStipe: A stalk or stem.
; stipeStipe: A stalk or stem.
6- 10 x 2-2.4 mm; stigmaStigma: The receptive tip of a carpel, or of several fused carpels, in the gynoecium of a flower.
punctiform; plant without disarticulating side shoots. Indonesian Papua, Papua New Guinea .. 📌. 21. Rhaphidophora pachyphylla
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├1B. | Not as above .. 6.
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│ | ┌6A. | Leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
variously pinnatePinnate: Pinnate Venation.
ly divided and/or perforateForate: With aperatures or openings.
d; roots smooth or pubescentPubescent: With a hairy surface.
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│ | │ | ┌7A. | Leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
of mature plants pinnatisectPinnatisect: Having lobes with incisions that extend almost, or up to midrib.
to slightly to extensively perforateForate: With aperatures or openings.
d, perforations round to rhombicRhombic:
, extending c. +/- of laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
width on each side of the midrib; shoot tips with prominent chartaceous prophyllProphyll: One of two first leaves to appear on a lateral shoot, usually smaller than the leaves that follow.
and cataphyllCataphyll: A reduced, small leaf. Usually used to describe a modified leaf which lacks a blade and in appearance corresponds to a petiole sheath.
remains. Indonesian Papua, Papua New Guinea (including New Ireland) .. 📌29. Rhaphidophora versteegii
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│ | │ | └7B. | Leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
of mature plants pinnatisectPinnatisect: Having lobes with incisions that extend almost, or up to midrib.
, the pinnaPinna: A primary division of a pinnate leaf.
e often perforateForate: With aperatures or openings.
d basalBasal: Forming or belonging to a bottom layer or base.
ly; active shoot tips with sparse to copious netted fibre. Throughout the region .. 📌16. Rhaphidophora korthalsii
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│ | ├6B. | Leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
entire, if pinnatePinnate: Pinnate Venation.
then with densely ramentose-scaly roots .. 8
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│ | │ | ┌8A. | Inflorescences arising on clinging shoots .. 9
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│ | │ | │ | ┌9A. | Shoot tips without variously textured cataphyllCataphyll: A reduced, small leaf. Usually used to describe a modified leaf which lacks a blade and in appearance corresponds to a petiole sheath.
, prophyllProphyll: One of two first leaves to appear on a lateral shoot, usually smaller than the leaves that follow.
and petiolar sheath fibre; laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
ovateOvate:
, 2.5-8.5 x 0.9- 4 cm, very stiffly coriaceousCoriaceous: Resembling or having the texture of leather.
, base cordateCordate:
to rounded and slightly notched, apexApex: End forming a point.
longacuminateAcuminate: Tapering to a point.
with a pronounced tubule. Papua New Guinea .. 📌20. Rhaphidophora okapensis
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│ | │ | │ | ├9B. | Shoot tips with variously textured cataphyllCataphyll: A reduced, small leaf. Usually used to describe a modified leaf which lacks a blade and in appearance corresponds to a petiole sheath.
, prophyllProphyll: One of two first leaves to appear on a lateral shoot, usually smaller than the leaves that follow.
and petiolar sheath fibre; leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
s various, but not the above combination of characters .. 10
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│ | │ | │ | │ | ┌10A. | Leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
pinnatisectPinnatisect: Having lobes with incisions that extend almost, or up to midrib.
; feeding roots densely ramentose-scaly. Throughout region .. 📌16. Rhaphidophora korthalsii
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│ | │ | │ | │ | ├10B. | Leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
entire; feeding roots smooth or pubescentPubescent: With a hairy surface.
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ┌11A. | SpadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
sessileSessile: Attached directly by its base without a stalk or peduncle.
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ┌12A. | Inflorescences solitary; stylarStylar: The usually slender part of a pistil, connecting the ovary and the stigma.
region conical, stigmaStigma: The receptive tip of a carpel, or of several fused carpels, in the gynoecium of a flower.
not prominent. New Guinea and Australia (eastern tropical Queensland) .. 📌1. Rhaphidophora australasica
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ├12B. | Inflorescences two or more together; stylarStylar: The usually slender part of a pistil, connecting the ovary and the stigma.
region truncate, stigmaStigma: The receptive tip of a carpel, or of several fused carpels, in the gynoecium of a flower.
prominent .. 13
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ┌13A. | Inflorescences subtendSubtend: (of a bract) extend under (a flower) so as to support or enfold it.
ed by netted fibre and copious sheet-like tissue, arising two or more sequentially between foliage leaves. Papua New Guinea .. 📌7. Rhaphidophora fortis
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ├13B. | Inflorescences each subtendSubtend: (of a bract) extend under (a flower) so as to support or enfold it.
ed by prominent chartaceous prophyllProphyll: One of two first leaves to appear on a lateral shoot, usually smaller than the leaves that follow.
and one or more large cataphyllCataphyll: A reduced, small leaf. Usually used to describe a modified leaf which lacks a blade and in appearance corresponds to a petiole sheath.
s, the whole forming a synflorescence not interspersed with foliage leaves .. 14
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ┌14A. | ProphyllProphyll: One of two first leaves to appear on a lateral shoot, usually smaller than the leaves that follow.
s and cataphyllCataphyll: A reduced, small leaf. Usually used to describe a modified leaf which lacks a blade and in appearance corresponds to a petiole sheath.
s subtendSubtend: (of a bract) extend under (a flower) so as to support or enfold it.
ing inflorescences soon degrading and falling; spatheSpathe: A large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster.
caducousCaducous: Easily detached and shed at an early stage.
, 16-24 cm long, stiff, thin; spadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
slender cylindrical, 13-21 x 1-3 cm, long decurrentDecurrent: Extending down the stem below the point of attachment.
(to 2 cm) at pedunclePeduncle: Flower stem.
/ spatheSpathe: A large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster.
insertion. New Britain and Bougainville .. 📌14. Rhaphidophora jubata
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ├14B. | ProphyllProphyll: One of two first leaves to appear on a lateral shoot, usually smaller than the leaves that follow.
s and cataphylJs subtendSubtend: (of a bract) extend under (a flower) so as to support or enfold it.
ing inflorescences drying chartaceous and persisting into fruit maturation; spatheSpathe: A large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster.
marcescentMarcescent: Withering but remaining attached to the stem.
, 5-13.5 cm long, stiff-fleshy, very thick-walled (up to 1 cm at tip); spadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
stoutly cylindrical, 3-16.5 x 1-1.5 cm, inserted almost level on pedunclePeduncle: Flower stem.
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ┌15A. | Leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
drying pale grey-green, often (but not always) profoundly perforateForate: With aperatures or openings.
d; juvenile growth phase shingling. Indonesian Papua, Papua New Guinea (including New Ireland) .. 📌29. Rhaphidophora versteegii
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | └15B. | Leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
drying strongly bicolored, adaxially dark brown, abaxialAbaxial: Facing away from the stem of a plant (especially denoting the lower surface of a leaf).
ly bright orange-brown with copious, minute tannin cells, never perforateForate: With aperatures or openings.
; juvenile growth phase not shingling. Palau, Indonesian Papua, Papua New Guinea (including Woodlark (Muyua) Island), Federated States of Micronesia (Yap) .. 📌25. Rhaphidophora spathacea
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ├11B. | SpadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
stipitateStipitate: Having a stalk or stem.
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ┌16A. | Inflorescence solitary, terminating short shoots arising singly in the axils of several adjacent leaves, each inflorescence subtendSubtend: (of a bract) extend under (a flower) so as to support or enfold it.
ed by a prophyllProphyll: One of two first leaves to appear on a lateral shoot, usually smaller than the leaves that follow.
and several degraded, netted cataphyllCataphyll: A reduced, small leaf. Usually used to describe a modified leaf which lacks a blade and in appearance corresponds to a petiole sheath.
s; spatheSpathe: A large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster.
ovoide llipsoid , 3.5-6.5 cm long; spadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
ovoid-ellipsoid, 2.5-3.5 x 1.3-1.7 cm; stylarStylar: The usually slender part of a pistil, connecting the ovary and the stigma.
region prominently conical, hexagonal in plan view; stigmaStigma: The receptive tip of a carpel, or of several fused carpels, in the gynoecium of a flower.
punctiform. New Guinea .. 📌8. Rhaphidophora geniculata
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | └16B. | Inflorescences several close together in a synflorescence, each subtendSubtend: (of a bract) extend under (a flower) so as to support or enfold it.
ed by a prominent chartaceous prophyllProphyll: One of two first leaves to appear on a lateral shoot, usually smaller than the leaves that follow.
and one or more chartaceous cataphyllCataphyll: A reduced, small leaf. Usually used to describe a modified leaf which lacks a blade and in appearance corresponds to a petiole sheath.
s, the entire synflorescence emerging from a mass of chartaceous cataphyllCataphyll: A reduced, small leaf. Usually used to describe a modified leaf which lacks a blade and in appearance corresponds to a petiole sheath.
s; spatheSpathe: A large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster.
canoe-shaped, 4-5.5 cm long; spadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
ylindrical, c. 3.2 x 0.9 cm; stylarStylar: The usually slender part of a pistil, connecting the ovary and the stigma.
region rounded-conical, almost circular in plan view; stigmaStigma: The receptive tip of a carpel, or of several fused carpels, in the gynoecium of a flower.
deeply excavated. Indonesian Papua (Mimika Prov.) and Papua New Guinea (East Sepik Prov.) .. .. 📌29. Rhaphidophora waria
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│ | │ | ├8B. | Inflorescences arising on free shoots .. 17
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│ | │ | │ | ┌17A. | Shoot tips with variously textured cataphyllCataphyll: A reduced, small leaf. Usually used to describe a modified leaf which lacks a blade and in appearance corresponds to a petiole sheath.
, prophyllProphyll: One of two first leaves to appear on a lateral shoot, usually smaller than the leaves that follow.
and petiolar sheath fibre .. 18
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│ | │ | │ | │ | ┌18A. | SpadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
stipitateStipitate: Having a stalk or stem.
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ┌19A. | Flowering shoots extremely abbreviated, arising from axils of leaves, all but obscured by netted petiolar sheath and cataphyllCataphyll: A reduced, small leaf. Usually used to describe a modified leaf which lacks a blade and in appearance corresponds to a petiole sheath.
fibre; spatheSpathe: A large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster.
ovoid-cylindric, 3-4 cm long, thinly coriaceousCoriaceous: Resembling or having the texture of leather.
; spadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
slender cylindrical, 2.9-3.4 x 1.7-1.9 cm; stylarStylar: The usually slender part of a pistil, connecting the ovary and the stigma.
region depressed centrally; antherAnther: The part of a stamen that contains the pollen.
s exsertedExserted: Protruded, stretched out, or (esp of stamens) projecting.
at male anthesisAnthesis: The period during which pollen is presented and/or the stigma is receptive.
. Indonesian Papua (Mimika/Digul Prov. Boundary .. 📌2. Rhaphidophora brevispathacea
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | └19B. | Flowering shoots elongated and leafy, not as above; spatheSpathe: A large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster.
canoeshaped, 20- 23 cm long, stiffly very fleshy; spadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
cylindrical to slightly cigar-shaped, 13.5- 19 x 2.2-4 cm; stylarStylar: The usually slender part of a pistil, connecting the ovary and the stigma.
region truncate with a raised rim; antherAnther: The part of a stamen that contains the pollen.
s not exsertedExserted: Protruded, stretched out, or (esp of stamens) projecting.
at male anthesisAnthesis: The period during which pollen is presented and/or the stigma is receptive.
. Indonesian Papua (Yapen), Papua New Guinea (East & West Sepik, Milne Bay & Morobe Prov.) .. 📌6. Rhaphidophora discolor
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│ | │ | │ | │ | ├18B. | SpadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
sessileSessile: Attached directly by its base without a stalk or peduncle.
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ┌20A. | Leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
narrowly lanceolateLanceolate:
to narrowly lanceolateLanceolate:
-ellipticElliptic:
, not exceeding 25 x 6 cm, stiffly coriaceousCoriaceous: Resembling or having the texture of leather.
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ┌21A. | CataphyllCataphyll: A reduced, small leaf. Usually used to describe a modified leaf which lacks a blade and in appearance corresponds to a petiole sheath.
s, prophyllProphyll: One of two first leaves to appear on a lateral shoot, usually smaller than the leaves that follow.
s and petiolar sheath degrading to simple robust fibres. Papua New Guinea (Kokoda & Port Moresby) .. .. 📌15. Rhaphidophora kokodensis
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | └21B. | CataphyllCataphyll: A reduced, small leaf. Usually used to describe a modified leaf which lacks a blade and in appearance corresponds to a petiole sheath.
s, prophyllProphyll: One of two first leaves to appear on a lateral shoot, usually smaller than the leaves that follow.
s and petiolar sheath degrading to weak fibres and strips of soft felt-like tissue. Indonesian Papua (Kepala Burung - Arfak Mts) .. 📌23. Rhaphidophora pilosa
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ├20B. | Leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
ovateOvate:
to oblongOblong:
-ellipticElliptic:
or oblongOblong:
lanceolateLanceolate:
, slightly oblique, frequently exceeding 30 x 10 cm,. up to 76 x 32, submembranous, subcoriaceousCoriaceous: Resembling or having the texture of leather.
, only rarely coriaceousCoriaceous: Resembling or having the texture of leather.
and then never stiffly so .. 22
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ┌22A. | Leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
drying strongly bicolore~ , adaxially mid-brown, abaxialAbaxial: Facing away from the stem of a plant (especially denoting the lower surface of a leaf).
ly pale brown; inflorescences usually several together, occasionally solitary each subtendSubtend: (of a bract) extend under (a flower) so as to support or enfold it.
ed by a soon-degrading membranous prophyllProphyll: One of two first leaves to appear on a lateral shoot, usually smaller than the leaves that follow.
and cataphyllCataphyll: A reduced, small leaf. Usually used to describe a modified leaf which lacks a blade and in appearance corresponds to a petiole sheath.
; spatheSpathe: A large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster.
9.5- 12 (- 16 cm) long. Papua New Guinea (Western Prov.), Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal, New Georgia, San Cristobal and the Santa Cruz Group), Fiji, Western and American Samoa .. 📌26. Rhaphidophora spuria
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ├22B. | Leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
not drying bicolored or if bicolored then abaxialAbaxial: Facing away from the stem of a plant (especially denoting the lower surface of a leaf).
ly greenish brown, adaxially dark brown with dense faint dark speckling; inflorescence always solitary, subtendSubtend: (of a bract) extend under (a flower) so as to support or enfold it.
ed by a +/- fully developed foliage leaf and copious netted fibre and sheet-like tissue or a +/- fully developed foliage leaf and one or nlore degrading papery cataphyllCataphyll: A reduced, small leaf. Usually used to describe a modified leaf which lacks a blade and in appearance corresponds to a petiole sheath.
s; spatheSpathe: A large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster.
17-22 long .. 23
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ┌23A. | Leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
subcoriaceousCoriaceous: Resembling or having the texture of leather.
, drying concolorous, base subacute to slightly decurrentDecurrent: Extending down the stem below the point of attachment.
; inflorescence subtendSubtend: (of a bract) extend under (a flower) so as to support or enfold it.
ed by a +/- fully developed foliage leaf and copious netted fibre and sheet-like tissue; spatheSpathe: A large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster.
17-20 cm long; spadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
10.5-18.5 x 1.7-2.3 cm; antherAnther: The part of a stamen that contains the pollen.
s not exsertedExserted: Protruded, stretched out, or (esp of stamens) projecting.
at male anthesisAnthesis: The period during which pollen is presented and/or the stigma is receptive.
. Papua New Guinea (Central & Morobe) .. .. 📌U. Rhaphidophora intonsa
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | └23B. | Leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
submenbranous, drying bicolored, abaxialAbaxial: Facing away from the stem of a plant (especially denoting the lower surface of a leaf).
ly greenish brown, adaxially dark brown and densely faint dark speckled, base oblique, one side rounded to almost truncate, the other subacute; inflorescence subtendSubtend: (of a bract) extend under (a flower) so as to support or enfold it.
ed by a +/- fully developed foliage leaf and one or more degrading papery cataphyllCataphyll: A reduced, small leaf. Usually used to describe a modified leaf which lacks a blade and in appearance corresponds to a petiole sheath.
s; spatheSpathe: A large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster.
c. 22 cm long; spadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
17-19 x 1.5-2 cm, yellow green: antherAnther: The part of a stamen that contains the pollen.
s long-exsertedExserted: Protruded, stretched out, or (esp of stamens) projecting.
at male anthesisAnthesis: The period during which pollen is presented and/or the stigma is receptive.
. Papua New Guinea (East Sepik, Morobe & Bougainville) .. 📌4. Rhaphidophora cravenschoddeana
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│ | │ | │ | ├17B. | Shoot tips without cataphyllCataphyll: A reduced, small leaf. Usually used to describe a modified leaf which lacks a blade and in appearance corresponds to a petiole sheath.
, prophyllProphyll: One of two first leaves to appear on a lateral shoot, usually smaller than the leaves that follow.
and petiolar sheath fibre .. .. 24
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│ | │ | │ | │ | ┌24A. | SpadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
stipitateStipitate: Having a stalk or stem.
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ┌25A. | StylarStylar: The usually slender part of a pistil, connecting the ovary and the stigma.
region conical .. 26
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ┌26A. | SpadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
base with cochleate insertion; stigmaStigma: The receptive tip of a carpel, or of several fused carpels, in the gynoecium of a flower.
glossy, black, at tip of long (c. 2 mm) slender stipeStipe: A stalk or stem.
; antherAnther: The part of a stamen that contains the pollen.
s not exsertedExserted: Protruded, stretched out, or (esp of stamens) projecting.
at male anthesisAnthesis: The period during which pollen is presented and/or the stigma is receptive.
. Guam .. 📌10. Rhaphidophora guamensis
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ├26B. | SpadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
base tapering to almost truncate; stigmaStigma: The receptive tip of a carpel, or of several fused carpels, in the gynoecium of a flower.
not as above; antherAnther: The part of a stamen that contains the pollen.
s exsertedExserted: Protruded, stretched out, or (esp of stamens) projecting.
at male anthesisAnthesis: The period during which pollen is presented and/or the stigma is receptive.
. Papua New Guinea (including Louisiade Archipelago), Australia (Queensland) .. 27
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ┌27A. | Petiolar sheath soon drying and eventually falling more-or-less entire leaving a conspicuous scar; inflorescence solitary, subtendSubtend: (of a bract) extend under (a flower) so as to support or enfold it.
ed by a partially developed foliage leaf and a membranous cataphyllCataphyll: A reduced, small leaf. Usually used to describe a modified leaf which lacks a blade and in appearance corresponds to a petiole sheath.
; spatheSpathe: A large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster.
6-8 cm long; spadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
stipeStipe: A stalk or stem.
c. 1 x 0.6 cm. Australia (Queensland) .. .. 📌22. Rhaphidophora petrieana
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | └27B. | Petiolar sheath persistentPersistent: Remaining attached to the plant beyond the usual time of falling.
through to leaf fall; inflorescence not solitary, subtendSubtend: (of a bract) extend under (a flower) so as to support or enfold it.
ed by a +/- fully developed foliage leaf; spatheSpathe: A large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster.
11-13 cm long; spadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
stipeStipe: A stalk or stem.
2.5-3 x 3-0.4 cm. Papua New Guinea (including Louisiade Archipelago) .. 📌27. Rhaphidophora stenophylla
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ├25B. | StylarStylar: The usually slender part of a pistil, connecting the ovary and the stigma.
region truncate .. 28
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ┌28A. | Petiolar sheath extending beyond the apicalApical: Of, relating to, or denoting an apex.
geniculum by two liguleLigule: A narrow strap-shaped part of a plant, especially a membranous scale on the inner side of the leaf sheath at its junction with the blade.
s adaxially and by fused extensions along the abaxialAbaxial: Facing away from the stem of a plant (especially denoting the lower surface of a leaf).
midrib for up to half the leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
length; leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
oblongOblong:
-ellipticElliptic:
, up to 16.5 cm long, submembranous; spatheSpathe: A large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster.
apexApex: End forming a point.
truncate and extending into a very long, slender beak up to 'h length of entire spatheSpathe: A large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster.
; spadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
cigar-shaped; antherAnther: The part of a stamen that contains the pollen.
s not exsertedExserted: Protruded, stretched out, or (esp of stamens) projecting.
at male anthesisAnthesis: The period during which pollen is presented and/or the stigma is receptive.
. Indonesian Papua (Kepala Burung) .. 📌13. Rhaphidophora intrusa
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | └28B. | Petiolar sheath extending beyond the apicalApical: Of, relating to, or denoting an apex.
geniculum only by two tiny liguleLigule: A narrow strap-shaped part of a plant, especially a membranous scale on the inner side of the leaf sheath at its junction with the blade.
s; leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
, lanceolateLanceolate:
to oblongOblong:
-lanceolateLanceolate:
, up to 34 cm long and usually exceeding 18 cm, thinly coriaceousCoriaceous: Resembling or having the texture of leather.
; spatheSpathe: A large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster.
apexApex: End forming a point.
stoutly short-beaked, beak not exceeding 1/6 length of entire spatheSpathe: A large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster.
; spadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
cylindrical; antherAnther: The part of a stamen that contains the pollen.
s strongly exsertedExserted: Protruded, stretched out, or (esp of stamens) projecting.
at male anthesisAnthesis: The period during which pollen is presented and/or the stigma is receptive.
. Papua New Guinea (including Bismarck Archipelago), Solomon Islands .. .. 📌24. Rhaphidophora schlechteri
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│ | │ | │ | │ | ├24B. | SpadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
sessileSessile: Attached directly by its base without a stalk or peduncle.
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ┌29A. | StylarStylar: The usually slender part of a pistil, connecting the ovary and the stigma.
region conical. Primary lafieral veinVein: Venation types: A. midrib; B. primary lateral veins; C. interprimaray veins; D. secondary veins; E. collective veins; F. tertiary veins; G. basal ribs; H. basal veins.
s drying much paler than abaxialAbaxial: Facing away from the stem of a plant (especially denoting the lower surface of a leaf).
leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
. Indonesian Papua (Kepala Burung & Mimika Prov.), Papua New Guinea (Muyua, New Britain) .. 📌3. Rhaphidophora conica
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ├29B. | StylarStylar: The usually slender part of a pistil, connecting the ovary and the stigma.
region truncate. Primary lateral veinVein: Venation types: A. midrib; B. primary lateral veins; C. interprimaray veins; D. secondary veins; E. collective veins; F. tertiary veins; G. basal ribs; H. basal veins.
s not as above .. 30
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ┌30A. | Leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
stiffly coriaceousCoriaceous: Resembling or having the texture of leather.
, narrowly lanceolateLanceolate:
; spatheSpathe: A large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster.
6-6.5 cm long; spadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
cylindrical, 3.3-3.5 x c. 0.7 cm. Papua New Guinea (Eastern Highlands - Goroka; Southern Highlands - Mendi) .. .. 📌9. Rhaphidophora gorokensis
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ├30B. | Leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
membranous to thinly coriaceousCoriaceous: Resembling or having the texture of leather.
, variously shaped but not narrowly lanceolateLanceolate:
, or if narrowly lanceolateLanceolate:
then not stiffly coriaceousCoriaceous: Resembling or having the texture of leather.
and inflorescences borne on the tips of long, slender, pendent stems; spatheSpathe: A large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster.
2.5- 3 cm long; spadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
ovoid-globose to ovoidcylindric, 1- 1.5 x 0.5-0.6 cm .. 31
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ┌32A. | Leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
narrowly lanceolateLanceolate:
to lanceolateLanceolate:
falcateFalcate: Curved like a sickle; hooked.
, 4-19 x 1-3 cm, thinly coriaceousCoriaceous: Resembling or having the texture of leather.
, weakly bicolored, adaxially dull mid-brown, abaxialAbaxial: Facing away from the stem of a plant (especially denoting the lower surface of a leaf).
ly paler brown with dense tannin cells; inflorescences borne at tips of very long, slender flowering stems ( c. 2 mm diam. in dried material); spatheSpathe: A large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster.
ovoid-ellipsoid, stoutly long-beaked, 2.5-3 x 0.7-0.9 cm; spadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
ovoid-globose to ovoid-cylindric, 1- 1.5 x 0.5-0.6cm. Indonesian Papua (Mimika Prov.), Papua New Guinea (Madang & Morobe Prov.) .. 📌17. Rhaphidophora microspadix
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | └32B. | Leaf laminaLamina: Leaf blade.
ellipticElliptic:
to oblongOblong:
-ellipticElliptic:
, 20-29 x 8-13 cm, membranous, markedly bicolored, adaxially mid-brown, abaxialAbaxial: Facing away from the stem of a plant (especially denoting the lower surface of a leaf).
ly pale orange brown; inflorescences borne on short shoots arising from axils of leaves along long, pendent flowering steins c. 1 cm diam. in dried material; spatheSpathe: A large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster.
elongate-cylindric, stoutly short-beaked, c. 10.2 x 1.7 cm; spadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
slender cylindrical, 8 x 1.1 cm. Papua New Guinea (East Sepik Prov.) .. 📌28. Rhaphidophora stolleana
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ├31B. | Inflorescences arising from short, spreading shoots .. 33
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | ┌33A. | SpatheSpathe: A large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster.
cigar-shaped, 1-4.5 x 0.7-1.2 cm, caduceus; spadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
cylindrical, 1.5-2.5 x 0.5-0.8; antherAnther: The part of a stamen that contains the pollen.
s not exsertedExserted: Protruded, stretched out, or (esp of stamens) projecting.
at male anthesisAnthesis: The period during which pollen is presented and/or the stigma is receptive.
. Papua New Guinea (Bougainville & Manus), Solomon Islands .. 📌18. Rhaphidophora mima
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│ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | │ | └33B. | SpatheSpathe: A large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster.
globose to ovoid-ellipsoid, 1-2 x 1-2.5 cm, marcescentMarcescent: Withering but remaining attached to the stem.
; spadixSpadix: A spike of minute flowers closely arranged around a fleshy axis and typically enclosed in a spathe.
globose to ellipsoid-cylindrical, 1-1.5 x 0.7-1 cm; antherAnther: The part of a stamen that contains the pollen.
s well-exsertedExserted: Protruded, stretched out, or (esp of stamens) projecting.
at male anthesisAnthesis: The period during which pollen is presented and/or the stigma is receptive.
. Mainland New Guinea .. 📌19. Rhaphidophora neoguineensis
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