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Trunks smooth, ringed, crowned at the summit by a dense cluster of pinnately divided lvs.: lfts. acuminate, either entire or jagged at the apex: spadix simple or sometimes branched, appearing below the lvs.: fls. monoecious in the same spadix: fr. an ovoid drupe. For cult., see Archontophoenix, to which belong many of the plants in the trade under Ptychosperma. For P. elegans, consult Seaforthia.
Trunks smooth, ringed, crowned at the summit by a dense cluster of pinnately divided lvs.: lfts. acuminate, either entire or jagged at the apex: spadix simple or sometimes branched, appearing below the lvs.: fls. monoecious in the same spadix: fr. an ovoid drupe. For cult., see Archontophoenix, to which belong many of the plants in the trade under Ptychosperma. For P. elegans, consult Seaforthia.
P. alba, Scheff.=Dictyosperma alba.—P. Alexandrae, F. Muell. =Archontophoenix Alexandrae.—P. Cunninghamiana, H. Wendl.= Archontophoenix Cunninghamii—P. elegana, Hort.=Seaforthia.— P. Rumpnii=Drymophlaeus.-P.Seemanii=Balaka.
N. Taylor.
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