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Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude

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Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude (1878)
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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H.Wendl. & Drude
H.Wendl. & Drude
1878
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Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
species
Rhopalostylis sapida

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sapida

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Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude

2n = 32
2n = 32

Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude

Trunk to c. 10 m. × 25 cm., green between rather closely spaced lf-scars; crownshaft to 60 cm. long, smooth and green, slightly bulging. Lf to 3 m. long; lflts to 1 m. long, closely set and ascending sharply. Spathes c. 30 × 15 cm., between pink and yellow, smooth, falling as first fls open. Ultimate branches of infl. to c. 20–(30) cm. long, c. 1.5 cm. diam. with buds on, at first pale cream-coloured; fl.-buds tightly packed, lilac. Fr. c. 10 × 7 mm., elliptic-oblong, brick-red. Seed long-oval, tightly invested in smooth, whitish endocarp which is marked by mainly longitudinal vascular strands; hilum broad at chalazal end, tapering to a narrow groove beside the micropyle.

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Rhopalostylis aff. sapida (AK 227148; Chatham Islands)
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude

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Rhopalostylis sapida H.Wendl. & Drude
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b5381f43-35cd-4545-bd41-fb5825433628
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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