Pinanga paradoxa

Pinanga (pih-NAHN-gah) paradoxa (pahr-ah-DOHX-ah)
Photo-Malaysian Biological Diversity
Scientific Classification
Genus: Pinanga (pih-NAHN-gah) Species: paradoxa (pahr-ah-DOHX-ah)
Synonyms
None set.
Native Continent
Asia
Morphology
Habit: Clustering Leaf type: Pinnate
Culture
Survivability index
Common names
None.

Habitat and Distribution

Endemic to Peninsular

RIUM, WP, Malaysia. Photo by Ahmad Fuad Morad

Malaysia (Malaya), and Thailand.

Description

Stems loosely clustered, spreading by long rhizomes, to 1.5 m tall, 0.4–0.7 cm in diameter, reddish, sometimes new shoots developing on the stem (dichotomous branching). Leaves pinnate; sheaths 4.5–10 cm long, green with reddish-brown hairs; petioles 2–4.5 cm long; rachis 0.15–0.4 m long; pinnae 3–20 per side of rachis, lighter green abaxially, falcate, regularly arranged, distantly spaced, the middle one 7–15 cm long, 1–4 cm wide. Inflorescences pendulous; peduncles 1 cm long, 0.2 cm wide; rachis absent; rachillae 1 (–4), 2–6 cm long, slender, zig-zag, flattened in cross-section, glabrous; triads arranged distichously, superficial on rachillae. Male flowers not seen; female flowers 2 mm long; sepals 2 mm long, rounded at the apices, ciliate; petals 2 mm long, ciliate. Fruits ovoid, to 1.8 cm long, 1 cm in diameter, ripening red to black. (Palms of Thailand) Editing by edric.

Culture

Cold Hardiness Zone: 10b

Comments and Curiosities

There are Two subspecies; Pinanga paradoxa var. paradoxa, and Pinanga paradoxa var. unicostata.