Welfia

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

Read about Welfia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Welfia (named in honor of the English royal family). Palmaceae. Unarmed palm, with a thick tall reed-like caudex, suitable for the warmhouse: lvs. terminal, pinnatisect; segms. coriaceous, strongly narrowed at base, apex entire or acuminately cut, many-nerved, plicate: spadices stout, pendulous; spathes 2, deciduous: fls. in deep hexagonal depressions, monoecious; male asymmetrical, sepals lanceolate, acute, petals broadly ovate, obtuse, stamens numerous, ovary rudimentary; female about equaling the male, compressed, sepals free, cymbiform-lanceolate, acuminate, petals much larger, 2 lateral cymbiform wing-keeled, dorsal narrower, flat, staminodes in a conical cup, ovary conical-subulate, 3-celled: fr. oblong, compressed, about 2 in. long, dark violet. — Two species, Cent. Amer. and Colombia. W. regia, H. Wendl. Up to 60 ft. high: lvs. when young divided almost to the base into a pair of oblong acuminate lobes, having a bronzy tint, at length becoming pinnatisect, borne on slender petioles; adult lvs. about 20 ft. long, pinnae numerous, narrow, unequal, decurrent on the angular rachis, whitish beneath. G.C. 1870:764. F.M. 1873:60. I.H. 18:62. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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