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Geonoma tenuissima
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===Description:=== This is a small clump-forming palm from the understorey of moist rainforest. Leaves are palmate: Blade is bifid, up to 40cm long and 16cm wide with extended drip-tips of 4-8cm long. Surface is finely corrugated but without any raised veins above or below. Petiole is from less than 1cm to 6cm long. Stem is 8-15mm in diameter and 2m to 3m tall with pronounced leaf scars and up to 10cm long internodes, they are smooth and cane-like, starting leaf-green and gradually aging to a yellow-brown tone. In the gloom of the forest floor it may have only three to six stems but on the edge of clearings or in cultivation may have more than twenty, more closely clumped as light conditions brighten. Inflorescences arise on bare stems, are three-order branched being 4mm/2mm/1mm wide at each level, baring small orange flowers of 0.5mm diameter and spherical fruit 5mm diameter, blue on ripening.
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