Editing Linospadix linospadix (section)

===Genetic description of Linospadix:===
Clustering or solitary, small, pleonanthic,
monoecious palms. Stems slender, nodes
conspicuous; internodes elongate. Leaves
bifid, or irregularly or evenly segmented;
leafbase clasping, crownshaft not developed;
petiole elongate or absent, channelled
adaxially, rounded abaxially; pinnae single
or united, apices praemorse when united.
acuminate when not united. Inforescence
protandrous, interfoliar, solitary, spicate:
peduncle elongate, erect; prophyll laterally
compressed, attached as base of peduncle.
enclosing inflorescence in bud, persistent:
peduncular bract tubular, attached at tip of
peduncle, deciduous; rachilla ca. length of
peduncle to much less. Flowers spirally arranged
in shallow pits; triads in proximal
portion, paired or solitary staminate flowers
in distal portion. Staminate flower sessile,
symmetric in bud; sepals broadly
imbricate; petals ca. twice as long as sepals,
thick, apically valvate; stamens erect, 4-20,
filaments short, anthers sagittate, subbasito
approaching basi-fixed, latrorse; pollen
elliptic, monosulcate, exine tectate, finely
reticulate; pistillode absent or small. Pistillate
flower globular, larger than the
staminate flower; sepals broadly imbricate;
petals exceeding the sepals, thickened
valvate tips; staminodes 3-6, toothlike; stigmas 3,
recurved. Fruit ellipsoid, cylindri-
cal, globose or pyriform, yellow or red at
maturity; stigmatic remains apical; epicarp
smooth, striate or rugose; mesocarp fleshy,
thin, longitudinal fibres appressed to
endocarp; endocarp thin, adhering to the
seed; seed subbasally attached, raphe attached
for less than o length of seed;
endosperm homogeneous; embryo basal.
Germination adjacent-ligular. Eophyll bifid.
n = 16.