Flora of North America species comparison

solitary, smooth, with conspicuous nodal rings.

solitary, erect, robust, unarmed, bearing conspicuous nodal rings.

ca. 5 m. Fruits 3.0–3.5 cm, ovoid, yellowish orange;

endocarp ovoid, brown, with 3 germination pores.

petiole unarmed;

sheath not forming crownshaft;

blade pinnate, unarmed;

plication reduplicate;

segments regularly arranged in multiple planes, apices acute to 2-cleft.

axillary within crown of leaves, paniculate, 1 order of branching, ascending, becoming pendulous in fruit;

prophyll short;

peduncular bract woody, beaked, splitting abaxially, becoming boat-shaped.

unisexual, sessile, borne in triads of 1 pistillate flower flanked by 2 staminate, staminate flowers borne singly along distal portions of rachillae.

sepals 3, connate;

petals 3, free, valvate, leathery;

stamens 6, free;

anthers linear;

pistillode with 3 minute lobes.

borne basally on rachillae, massive;

sepals 3, imbricate, free;

petals 3, imbricate, free;

staminode a low annular ring at base of pistil;

pistil 1, large;

ovules 1;

style indistinct;

stigmas 3.

drupes, ovoid, less than 4 cm diam.;

exocarp orange, thin, smooth;

mesocarp fleshy, oily;

endocarp thick, bony, irregularly folded into seed, with 3 basal germination pores.

irregular with hollow cavity;

endosperm homogeneous;

embryo basal;

eophyll undivided, lanceolate.

= 32.