Pinanga
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Read about Pinanga in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Pinanga (Malay name). Palmaceae, tribe Areceae. Slender spineless bamboo-like palms from India and the Malay Archipelago. Stems erect: lvs. terminal, unequally lobed or pin- natisect, or simple and bifid at the apex; segms. plicate, many-nerved, the lower ones acuminate, the upper confluent, the margins not thickened, recurving at the base; rachis acute above, convex below: petiole convex above; sheath elongated: spadix usually small, very simple: peduncle short: branches in groups; spathe 1, symmetrical, swollen or compressed and 2-winged: fls. rather small, the staminate one on each side of a pistillate, thus differing from Areca in which the pistillate fls. are solitary: fr. ovoid or elliptical, orange or red, with a membranous husk.—About 40-50 species. For cult., see Palms. P. maculata, Porte. A dwarf slender palm with apparently permanently variegated lvs. : lvs. elliptic, bind nearly to the middle: spadix below the lvs., recurved: us. showy, scarlet. Philippine Isls. B.M. 8011. Not in cult, in Amer.—P. malaiana, Scheff. St. slender, 8-12 ft. high: lvs. 5-8 ft. long; lfts. numerous, linear acuminate: spadix 6 in long, blood-red in fr.: 1-1 1/2 in.long, blackish purple. Malaya.-P. Micholitxii, Hort. sander is a plant exhibited at ghent in 1908, from sumatra. G.C. III.43:259. P. ternatensis, Scheff. (Areca gigantea, Hort.) Lvs. 12 ft. long, with 30 - 40 lanceolate segms.. the largest 3 ft. long: branches of spadix spirally disposed. Ternate Isl. N. TAYLOR. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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