Difference between revisions of "Pinanga simplicifrons"

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Pinanga (pih-NAHN-gah)
simplicifrons
(sihm-PLIHS-ih-frohns)

Selapon, Brunei Darussalam, Borneo. Photo by Dr. John Dransfield, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew/Palmweb.

Scientific Classification

Genus:	Pinanga (pih-NAHN-gah)
Species:	simplicifrons (sihm-PLIHS-ih-frohns)

Synonyms

None set.

Native Continent

Asia

Morphology

Habit:	Clustering
Leaf type:	Pinnate

Culture

Survivability index

Common names

None.

Habitat and Distribution

Borneo, Malaya, Sumatera, and Thailand. Malaysian rainforest. Native to peninsular

Rediscovery in Singapore of Pinanga simplicifrons. Photo by Kwan

Malaysia and distributed in the lowland forest in the states of Kelantan, Terengganu and Perak.

Description

Small, clumping palm to about 1.0m high. Leaves normally entire, although divided on var. 'pinnata'.

Stems clustered, 1.5 m tall, 0.8–1.5 cm in diameter, brown. Leaves pinnate or undivided; sheaths 10–20 cm long, greenish-brown, persisting and disintegrating while still on the stem; petioles 7.5–30 cm long; rachis 0.2–0.3 m long; pinnae 2–4 per side of rachis, or blade undivided, lighter green abaxially, pinnae of pinnate leaves falcate, irregularly arranged, closely spaced, the middle ones to 20 cm long, 5 cm wide. Inflorescences pendulous, covered with persistent prophyll and bursting through the persistent leaf sheaths; peduncles about 1 cm long, 0.3 cm wide; rachis very short or absent; rachillae 1–2, 2–2.5 cm long, zig-zag, flattened in cross-section, glabrous; triads arranged distichously, superficial on the rachillae. Male flowers 7–8 mm long, not pedicellate; sepals forming a 3-lobed cupule, about 2 mm high; petals 6–7 mm long, narrowly triangular, valvate; stamens about 11; female flowers about 2.5 mm long; sepals about 2 mm long, rounded at the apices, ciliate; petals about 2 mm long, ciliate. Fruits ovoid, often curved, to 2 cm long and 1 cm in diameter, red. (Palms of Thailand) Editing by edric.

Culture

Warm, sheltered, and moist. Cold Hardiness Zone: 10b

Comments and Curiosities

There are two subspecies, Pinanga simplicifrons var. 'simplicifrons'; simple-leaved carpet-forming palm, rarely more than 1 m tall, found in Borneo, Malaya, Sumatera, and Thailand. Pinanga simplicifrons var. 'pinnata' (pin-NAHT-a), found only in Malaya.

This very ornamental dwarf species from S. Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia (Sumatra) produces multiple thin canes, and beautiful undivided and bifid or occasionally sparsely pinnate leaves, that are about a foot long. An excellent and very rare plant for the understorey of tropical or warm subtropical gardens. (RPS.com)

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 ==Description==
 Small, clumping palm to about 1.0m high. Leaves normally entire, although divided on var. 'pinnata'.
+Stems clustered, 1.5 m tall, 0.8–1.5 cm in diameter, brown. Leaves pinnate or undivided; sheaths 10–20 cm long, greenish-brown, persisting and disintegrating while still on the stem; petioles 7.5–30 cm long; rachis 0.2–0.3 m long; pinnae 2–4 per side of rachis, or blade undivided, lighter green abaxially, pinnae of pinnate leaves falcate, irregularly arranged, closely spaced, the middle ones to 20 cm long, 5 cm wide. Inflorescences pendulous, covered with persistent prophyll and bursting through the persistent leaf sheaths; peduncles about 1 cm long, 0.3 cm wide; rachis very short or absent; rachillae 1–2, 2–2.5 cm long, zig-zag, flattened in cross-section, glabrous; triads arranged distichously, superficial on the rachillae. Male flowers 7–8 mm long, not pedicellate; sepals forming a 3-lobed cupule, about 2 mm high; petals 6–7 mm long, narrowly triangular, valvate; stamens about 11; female flowers about 2.5 mm long; sepals about 2 mm long, rounded at the apices, ciliate; petals about 2 mm long, ciliate. Fruits ovoid, often curved, to 2 cm long and 1 cm in diameter, red. (Palms of Thailand) Editing by edric.
 ==Culture==
 Warm, sheltered, and moist. Cold Hardiness Zone: 10b