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Classification
Johannesteijsmannia
Nomenclature
SUMMARY
Acaulescent to shortly trunked palms, solitary. Stem procumbent, usually subterranean. Leaf entire, diamond-shaped, large and often trapping litter; sheath tubular, disintegrating into fibrous mesh; petiole armed along the edges with small spines; hastula barely visible as a dead strip of tissue at petiole-blade transition; blade with prominent subpinnately ribbed costa, proximal margins armed like petiole, distal margins with alternating long and short indentations. Inflorescence interfoliar, short, often partly covered by litter, branched to 1–5 orders; prophyll densely tomentose, peduncular bracts up to seven; rachis shorter than peduncle; rachillae 3–6. Flowers hermaphroditic, inserted in groups of 2–4 or solitary; stamens 6, filaments broad, fleshy, connate basally to form an androecial ring. Fruit one-seeded and rounded, rarely 2–3 seeded and lobed, at maturity brown with corky warts produced by the splitting of the epidermis and adjacent mesocarp layers, 4–6 cm diam.; endocarp distinct and bony. Germination remote-tubular.
Four species from Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo. One species in Thailand.