Desmoncus
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Read about Desmoncus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Desmoncus (band and hook, referring to hook- like points on the lvs.). Palmaceae. About 25 palms of U. S., S. Mex. to Bolivia and Brazil, differing from Bactris in the long slender climbing caudex and technical characters. They are gregarious plants, with spines or hooks by means of which they climb or are elevated on growing trees, the sts. usually thin and flexuose and annular: lvs. scattered along the st., pinnate or pinnatisect, the parts or segms. opposite or alternate, the rachis produced into a long hook-bearing climbing organ: fls. greenish, in solitary spadices with 2 spathe-lvs.: fr. small, pea-shaped, red. D. major, Crueg., st. becoming very long and clinging to supports by the modified retrorse opposite segms. on the prolonged rachis: lvs. pinnate; lfts. 20 pairs, linear-acuminate and usually clustered; rachis spiny, dark-tomentose: spathe covered with brown prickles. Trinidad. Little known under glass, and reported as cult. in the open in S. Fla. and S. Calif. L. H. B. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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