Editing Linospadix caninus

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===Synonymy:===
''Linospadix elegans'' Ridley
''Bacularia caninus''

===Distribution:===
Indonesia. Irian Jaya. In
Jayapura, Paniai, Tjenderawasih and
Manokwari Divisions, in rainforest at 150-1000 m altitude.

===Derivation of Name:===
Latin, canis - dog
(possibly relates to the fruit resembling a dog's
tooth, but this was not explained by
Beccari).

===Description:===
Clustering, small palm. Stems to 2 m tall,
4-5 mm diameter; intenodes 1.2-8 cm long,
dark green; crown with 5-10 leaves. Leaves
20-30 cm long, simply bifid or irregularly
or regularly segmented; petiole 6-7 cm long,
to 3 mm wide; pinnae 2-26 per leaf, in
segmented leaf 10-12 cm long, 4-10 mm wide,
once-ribbed, acuminate, 2 terminal pinnae
basally united with the apex attenuate and
toothed; in bifid leaf with 1 segment either
side, broadly attached to the rachis,
6-7 ribbed, apex attenuate, toothed; pinnae
semi-glossy, mid to dark green above,
lighter green below; ribs and veins
prominent on adaxial surface only.
Inflorescence to 45 cm long; peduncle 32-37 cm long,
2.5-3 mm wide, laterally compressed, margins
acute; prophyll 5-6 cm long, tubular;
peduncular bract linear-lanceolate, 9-15 cm
long, to 2 mm wide, acuminate; rachis 8-13
cm long, slightly thicker than peduncle.
Flowers cream/yellow. Staminate flowers
ovate, symmetrical, apex obtuse, 3-3.5 mm
long in bud; sepals large, suborbicular,
concavely pouched, freely coriaceous, dorsally
ridged, margins finely ciliate; petals
elliptical; stamens 6-9, equal in length, filaments
short, anthers oblong, yellow to orange;
pistillode rudimentary; pistillate flower
broadly conical, to 3.5 mm long, to 2.5 mm
wide. sepals convex, not carinate. Fruit ellipsoid,
fusiform, curved, attenuate to both
ends. 15-28 mm long, to 3.5-5 mm wide.
red at maturity; epicarp minutely longitudinally
striate; mesocarp succulent;
endocarp thin and opaque. Seed ellipsoid,
to 10 mm long, to 2 mm wide, curved, basally
rounded, apex attenuate.
''Linospadix caninus'' is primarily distinguished
by its long, curved fruit that are
about twice as long as they are in its New
Guinea congener, ''L. albertisiana''.
In addition, it is generally a smaller palm, and the
ribs on the pinnae are raised on the adaxial
side only, rather than on both sides.
''Linospadix caninus'' - as ''Bacularia caninus''
- was described by O. Beccari from a collection
made by G. M. Versteeg in 1907
from the Mr. Carstenz area in south-west
Irian Jaya.
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===Contributed by: ===
John Dowe (Text - from '''''Palms & Cycads''''' No. 58, Jan-Mar 1998)<br/>


===External Links:===
[https://powo.science.kew.org/results?q=Linospadix%20caninus Kew], 
[https://www.palmweb.org//?q=cdm_dataportal/taxon/bed9fa67-8bff-4258-9dd7-bed56303c138 PalmWeb],
[https://e-monocot.org/taxon/urn:kew.org:wcs:taxon:112576 eMonocot],
[https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=Linospadix+caninus JSTOR],
[https://www.trebrown.com/plant_info.php?species=Linospadix+caninus Trebrown]
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