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Classification
Kerriodoxa
Nomenclature
SUMMARY
Small to moderate-sized tree palm, solitary, dioecious, pleonanthic. Stem usually covered by the persistent remains of leaf bases. Leaves palmately divided, induplicate; sheath splitting cleanly to the base opposite the petiole, with caducous wooly indumentum; petiole long, channelled adaxially, unarmed; hastula conspicuous adaxially, abaxially absent; blade thin, divided along adaxial ribs into short single-fold segments, transverse veinlets conspicuous. Inflorescence solitary, interfoliar, emerging from a cleft in the subtending leaf, cream-coloured, rachis longer than peduncle, first order branches subtended by conspicuous, shortly tubular bracts, distally with triangular limb; male inflorescence eventually arching, branched to 4 orders, with numerous condensed rachillae; female inflorescence erect, branched to 2 orders, more robust and with fewer rachillae than the male. Male flowers with stalk-like corolla base, six free stamens and no pistillode; female flowers as the male, but larger, with empty anthers and a large 3-lobed gynoecium. Fruit 1(–2)-seeded, globose; epicarp minutely and irregularly warty, mesocarp thick and spongy; endocarp thin; endosperm shallowly ruminate. Germination remote-ligular.
A single species endemic to Peninsular Thailand.