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Classification	Arecaceae: Ptychandra
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode(s)	00057916
Type Status	Type
Collector	L. J. Brass
Collector number	4974
Country	Papua New Guinea
State	Central
Geography	Oceania: Papuasia (Region): Papua New Guinea: Central
Locality	Mount Tafa, valley forests, 2400 m.
Date Collected	1933-09-**
GUID	http://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/7e0aa2da-32ef-436a-8934-d4dd1c7f80d0
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode	00057916
Herbarium	A
Family	Arecaceae
Type Status	Type
Type of	Ptychandra montana Burret
Determination Remarks	[filed under]
Taxon Reference	(for Ptychandra montana Burret) Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 1935. 12: 324.
Subcollection	Fruit collection
Sex	not determined
Phenology	NotDetermined
Preparation Type	Bag
Preparation Method	Dried


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Remarks

Tall graceful species attaining 15 m.; specimens from a tree growing in a forest opening, the only example observed in flower; trunk 30 feet high with diameter of 8.5 cm. just below leaves; leaves 7, spreading and drooping about 2 m. long; leaf sheaths thick, about 35 cm. long; pinna concave, 46-50 on each side of rachis; panicles 6, lowermost bearing half ripe fruit, upper one still enveloped in spathe; scattered, the only palm aprt from a small Calamus occurring at this altitude.