Editing Linospadix apetiolatus (section)

===Description:===
Clustering, small palm. Stems 2-6, 2-5 m
tall, 15-25 mm diameter; internodes elongate,
green; vegetative aerial growths from
nodes are common; crown with 6-14 leaves.
Leaves 30-90 cm long by 10-20 cm wide,
simply bifid or with broad bilobed terminals
and evenly segmented laterals on both
sides of midrib and broader pinnae or with
one lobe entire and running the length of
the rachis and the other lobe segmented into
pinnae; dull or semi-glossy light green
above, lighter green below, with a metallic
sheen on both surfaces; midrib very prominent
on both surfaces; secondary veins
prominent on both surfaces; petiole absent
or rarely very short to 3 cm long; lamina
thick, opaque to partially translucent, when
backlit under 10x magnification, has scattered,
circular clear 'cells' to 0.1 mm wide
linearly parallel to midrib and veins.
Inflorescence to 80 cm long. Staminate flowers
bullet-shaped in bud, 2.8-4 mm long; petals
with conspicuous longitudinal
striations, apex shortly acute to rounded,
green at anthesis, widely opening at
anthesis; stamens 4-7; connective not extending
beyond the anthers; pistillode lacking.
Fruit elongate/cylindrical, 10-15 mm
long by 5-6 mm wide, yellow or red at maturity;
epicarp moderately rugose when fully
mature. Seed elongate/ellipsoid, 9-10 mm
long by 3-4 mm wide.
There is considerable variation in the leaf
of this species. Some forms have partially
segmented leaves, with one lobe entire and
running the full length of the rachis, the
other lobe segmented into pinnae. Some
forms retain the bifid leaf into maturity
whiile others have leaves that are evenly pinnate
though with the apical segments united
to remain strongly bilobed, and the basal
pinnae either slightly broader or much
broader than the laterals.

''Linospadix apetiolata''
was described in 1997 by J.
Dowe & A. K. Irvine from a collection made
from near the summit of Mt. Lewis, Queensland.