Editing Linospadix minor

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[[File:Linospadix_minor.jpg|frame|Figure 1. Figure 1. L. minor in the rainforest margin<br/>at Josephine Falls National Park, North Queensland.]]
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===Synonymy:===
''Bacularia intermedia'' C.T. White

===Distribution:&#160;:===
Australia. North-east Queensland.
Recorded from the southern
Mcllwraith Range where it has limited
distribution, and abundantly from just south
of Cooktown (Mt. Amos area} to Mission
Beach (Licuala State Forest) and as far
inland as Windsor Tableland, from 0-1200 m
elevation, in rainforest on basalt, granite and
metamorphics.

===Derivation of name:===
Latin, minor- small.
Named for its smaller stature as compared
to ''L. monostachya'', the only other species
known at the time of its description.

===Description:===
Clustering, small palm. Stems 1-5 m tall,
7-20 mm diameter; internodes elongate,
green; crown with 7-12 leaves. Leaves to
110 cm long, irregularly segmented with
united pinnae, segments broadly adnate to
the rachis, or regularly pinnate with narrow
pinnae; petiole 3.6-51 cm long, 1-4 mm
wide; pinnae 3-24 per leaf, semi-glossy dark
green above, lighter green below, midrib
prominent on both surfaces, veins not
prominent on lower surface; lamina
chartaceous, irregularly corrugated, 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, to 3 mm long by 2
mm wide; petals apically rounded, with
conspicuous longitudinal striations, green
at anthesis, not widely opening; stamens 7-20,
attached at different levels in the
staminal cluster; connective not extending
beyond the anther; anther lobes irregular or
uneven. Fruit elongate/cylindrical, 8-18 mm
long by 3-8 mm diameter, yellow or red at
maturity, epicarp irregularly rugose when
fruit is fully mature. Seed elongate/ellipsoid.
 
''Linospadix minor'' is the most vegetatively
variable species in the genus. Plants may
be less an 1m to more than 4m tall, sparsely
or densely clustered, and leaves may be
small to large with few to many segments.
Conversely, flowers and fruit display little
variation throughout the species' range.
''Linospadix minor'' - as ''Areca minor'' - was
described by Walter Hill in 1864 from
plants collected in the foothills of Mt.
Bellenden-Ker, Queensland.
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[[File:Linospadix_minor02.jpg|frame|Figure 2. ''L. minor'' in habitat, Daintree Rainforest, North Queensland.]]
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[[File:Linospadix_minor03.jpg|frame|Figure 3. ''L. minor'']]
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[[File:L.minor_unripe_fruit.jpg|frame|Figure 4. ''L. minor'' unripe fruit]]
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===Contributed by: ===
John Dowe (Text - from '''Palms & Cycads''' No. 58, Jan-Mar 1998).<br/>
Greg Cuffe (Figure 1 - from '''Palms & Cycads''' No. 48, Jul-Sept 1995).<br/>
Jeff Nugent - '''[https://www.permacultureplants.net/ Permaculture Plants]''' (Figures 2&3).<br/>
Ian Edwards (Figure 4)


===External Links:===
[https://powo.science.kew.org/results?q=Linospadix%20minor Kew], 
[https://www.palmweb.org//?q=cdm_dataportal/taxon/b1ae1330-0999-4c0f-84c7-53a16af830ed PalmWeb],
[https://e-monocot.org/taxon/urn:kew.org:wcs:taxon:112592 eMonocot],
[https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=Linospadix+minor JSTOR],
[https://www.trebrown.com/plant_info.php?species=Linospadix+minor Trebrown],
[https://keys.trin.org.au/key-server/data/0e0f0504-0103-430d-8004-060d07080d04/media/Html/taxon/Linospadix_minor.htm ATRP]
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[https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Linospadix+minor%22&amp;num=10&amp;sa=Google+Search Google],
[https://images.google.com/images?q=%22Linospadix+minor%22&amp;hl=en&amp;btnG=Google+Search GoogleImages],
[https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Linospadix+minor Flickr],
[https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Linospadix+minor%22%20site:https://www.palmtalk.org/&amp;sa=Google+Search PalmTalk]
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