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Manicaria (name derived from the word for glove, because of the spathe). Palmaceae. Two or 3 species, or perhaps only 1, in Trop. S. Amer., little cult., allied to Geonoma. They are robust unarmed palms with more or less pinnatisect or entire lvs.: fls. large, rose-ochroleucous, heavy-scented, on many branching tomentose spadices: fr. very large. M. saccifera, Gaertn., has lvs. simple or split with age, dentate, 30 ft. long and 4-5 ft. broad, transversely furrowed, crowning an erect deeply ringed trunk: fls. of both sexes on the same spadix, the latter 3-4 ft. long: fr. 3-lobed. Lower Amazon and elsewhere. A striking palm with its immense simple lvs.
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
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