Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone (sl)

s.loc.

fr

H.D. Jordan

1027

1955-1-1/1955-12-31

Habit:Trunk smooth lowards base, but in upper part covered with curly fibres from leaf bases. Leaves form a wider angle than in R palma pinus. Several runks said to grow from one root stoch leaves dark green even in young stages. leaves wih spines on petiole & towards base of midrib of leaflets also occasional spines on margins of leaflets. Inflorescence: final branches in 4 ms, short, slighlty curved 5-10 cm long crowded. Fruits: Colour chestnut-brown, with 12 rows of scales, slightly less convex than in [specs] 1015-1018 and more saintly grooved but with pointed tongue overlapping scale below.

In land swamp