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===Descriptive Notes: ===
''Carpoxylon macrospermum''
H.A. Wendland and Drude.
30th November 1987. Espiritu Santo,
Vanuatu.

===General Aspect: ===
A graceful, tall, emergent, pinnately
leaved palm with a well developed shiny, green crownshaft.
Leaves strongly arcuate toward the apex, distinctive stiffly
erect pinnae. Fruiting parts held below the crownshaft,
staged, twice branched, with large fruits becoming bright
orange on maturity. Four specimens were sighted in a close
group; three having reached reproductive age, one large
adolescent; a number of scattered seedlings were emerging
from the holes of coconut crabs in the vicinity beneath the
palms; Local vdlages reported that scattered individuals
occured further up-stream.

===Trunk: ===
tallest to about 18m; base expanded to 50cm diameter,
upward of 1 m above ground-level a uniform 35cm in diameter
attained for much of the height; internodes either closely
spaced to 2cm on higher parts of trunk or distant to 7cm
apart on adolescent and the lower parts of the mature trunks;
anular rings slightly raised, white; intersurface smooth,
dull green, turning grey with age.

===Crownshaft: ===
large, columnar, 1.5 - 2.O m, shining uniform
green, smooth; splitting opposite the petiole prior to leaf
fall.

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===Leaf: ===
large 3.5 - 4.0m, becoming strongly arcuate toward
the apex; petiole short to 25cm, width at attachment to
crownshaft 15cm; rachis flexible, broadly ridged on the upper
surface, this ridge constricting to a sharp edge at mid leaf
and extending into the apex and beyond the apical pair of
pinnae for 12cm, forming a strong flexible extension;
undersurface smooth, rounded, dull green.

===Pinnae: ===
linear, 3.5 - 4.0cm wide, acuminate; basal pinnae
to 30cm, mid-leaf pinnae to 1.5m, apical pinnae to 20cm,
stiffly coriacous, dull-green above, grey-green beneath;
light yellowish green in the 2cm at base; 69 per side,
progressively wider spaced form apex, 3.5cm apart to 8cm
apart at the base; apical pinnae attached to rachis at 180&deg
to each other, mid-leaf pinnae steeply ascending with a
divergent angle of 40&deg, basal pinnae set at an angle of 150°
prominently, flexibly veined; mid-vein most prominent of
seven evenly spaced veins, marginal vein more prominent than
the 2 intermediate veins.

===Inflorescence:: ===
unknown, collection presently being arranged.

===Infructesence: ===
large and spreading, attached directly below
the crownshaft; 4-6 in progressive stages of development;
peduncle stout, to 14cm, elipsoidal in crosssection; 7cm
broad at basal bract scar, 5.5cm at second bract scar,
4.5cm at third bract scar, bract scars 5cm apart; twice branched,
primary branch 38cm in length, flat sided in four planes,
axis 20cm from the base of peduncle; subsequent branches
loosely arranged and inserted at 4cm intervals; progressively
smaller toward the apex; primary rachillae attached 5cm from
the axis; subsequent rachillae loosely arranged, evenly
spaced; basal rachillae to 40cm in length, apical 2/3 thin
and shrivelled; 2-6 fruits attached to base ; apical
rachillae to 20cm in length, only 1 fruit attached to base;
all infructescence surfaces smooth and uniform mid-green.

===Fruits: ===
large ovoid-elipsoidal, with eccentric apical
stigmatic remains; epicarp smooth, lightly pleated in the
basal 1 cm; mesocarp, thin, dry, fibrous, yellowish; seed
large, oblong-ovoid flattened at the base; raphe fibres
attached longitudinally;, endocarp papery; endosperm jellyish,
white, central cavitywith clear liquid; mature fruits bright
orange; germination adjacent; eophyll bifid.

===Uses: ===
The fruits are edible, resembling green coconut in
texture and flavour and considered somewhat of a delicacy by
the local villagers. The fruits are split between the teeth,
prised apart with the thumbs and slurped. The flavour is much
fuller than green coconut, as I can attest to. The palm
hearts are occasionally used to make salads, being mixed with
coconut juice. The local name is 'ninuvusa'.

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[[File:Carpoxylon_macrospermumC.jpg|frame|Figure 1. Young ''C. macrospermum'', growing strongly.]]
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===Contributed by: ===
John Dowe Reproduced from '''''Palms & Cycads''''' No. 18, Jan-Mar 1988.

===External Links:===
[https://powo.science.kew.org/results?q=Carpoxylon%20macrospermum Kew],
[https://www.palmweb.org//?q=cdm_dataportal/taxon/961429c6-68e5-46c1-b0de-bdcc0b90df3a PalmWeb],
[https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/full/38465/0 IUCN],
[https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=Carpoxylon+macrospermum JSTOR],
[https://www.trebrown.com/plant_info.php?species=Carpoxylon+macrospermum Trebrown]
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[https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Carpoxylon+macrospermum%22&num=10&sa=Google+Search Google],
[https://images.google.com/images?q=%22Carpoxylon+macrospermum%22&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search GoogleImages],
[https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Carpoxylon+macrospermum Flickr],
[https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Carpoxylon+macrospermum%22%20site:https://www.palmtalk.org/&sa=Google+Search PalmTalk]
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