Veitchia arecina

 

학명 : Veitchia arecina Becc.

Syn : Veitchia macdanielsii H.E.Moore

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Family: Arecaceae

Common Name : Montgomery palm

 

 

사진 : 2023.03.19 푸른수목원

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Veitchia arecina is found in Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu.

 

Description

A very attractive, tall, solitary, pinnate palm with a slender grey trunk to 30 m high. It has a slender white crownshaft with black, gray and green speckling. Its long arching leaves have long green slightly drooping leaflets with serrated tips.

 

Montgomery Palm is one of the tall, slender, single-trunked, pinnate-leaved palms that can be challenging to differentiate. Like other species of Veitchia, its leaflet tips are not squared off broadly (as in the locally cultivated Ptychosperma species), and they do not taper to a sharp point as in Carpentaria, Howea, Archontophoenix, and others. In veitchias, the leaflet tips taper almost to a point but look like they were torn off just basal to the tip (premorse leaf Tip). Veitchia crownshafts are usually blue-waxy and often have dark - or less often light- colored scales toward the tops.

 

Stems: Solitary, slender, gray stems to 25 m tall and up to 28 cm in diameter, bulging at the base, with close rings of leaf scars. Leaves: Pinnate, reduplicate, to 3 m long, with an arching rachis holding regularly arranged, drooping leaflets in a single plane. The crown shaft is 60-140 cm long, somewhat swollen at the base, pale green in color, covered with fine, silvery hairs and gray to brown/black scales at the apex. Leaflets are green above and below, lanceolate, with thick marginal ribs and prominent midribs. Leaflet tips are jaggedly toothed (somewhat praemorse). Flowers and fruits: Inflorescence is stiffly arching, to 1 m long and branched to three or four orders. Greenish to white male and female flowers are borne on the same inflorescence. The ovoid, red fruits are 2.5-5 cm long. (idtools.org)

 

Field: Erect, solitary palms with close leaf scar rings on the slender gray stem; pale green crown shaft with blackish scales at the apex; leaves held mainly horizontally or higher; leaflets drooping and growing in a single plane.

 

Lab: Lines of tiny white scales covering the underside of the leaflets; obvious dark brown ramenta along the base of the midrib; marginal veins and midrib prominent.

 

 

 

 

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