Prestoea
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Read about Prestoea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Prestoea (named after H. Prestoe, of the Botanic Gardens at Trinidad). Palmaceae. Slender dwarf palms with a reed-like, annulate caudex, occasionally grown in the warmhouse: lvs. long and slender-petioled, pinnatisect at the base, upper segms. connate in an oblong blade, 2-cleft at the apex, lower segms. narrow: spathes 2, membranaceous, finally lacerate; spadices short-peduncled, fuscous-pubescent, with strict erect- spreading branches: fls. small, monoecious; male fls. asymmetrical, calyx 3-lobed, minute, petals obliquely ovate, stamens 6, ovary rudimentary; female fls. larger than the male, globose, sepals reniform-rotun- date, petals broadly ovate, ovary obovoid-oblong, 1- celled. Three species, W. Indies and Colombia. P. pubigera, Hook. f. (Hyospathe pubigera, Griseb. & Wendl.). Trunk 10-12 ft. high: lvs. 3-4 ft. long, green with pale nerves, glabrous; lower segms. somewhat distant, linear-acuminate, l 1/2-2 ft. long, upper more or less cohering and forming oblong or oblong-linear blades: exterior spathe 2-keeled, 5 in. long, interior 12-15 in. long; lower branches of spadix about 6 in. long, thickened at base, glomerules somewhat distant: fls. minute and sessile. Trinidad. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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