Bentinckia condapanna Berry ex Roxb.

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Common Names

 

English	Hill Areca Nut.,Hill Arecanut
Malayalam	Kantha,kamugu,Kantal,Kanthal.,Kantha-kamugu,Kanthal,Vareikamuku Parapakku
Tamil	Kantha Panai,Varei Kamugu,Varukamuvu.

Habit

Palm 15 m tall.

Trunk & Bark

Trunk smooth, grey with annulate scar.

Leaves

Leaves compound, pinnate, 1.5-2 m long; leaflets 60-75 x 2.5-5 cm, linear oblong, 2-3 united, tip usually bifid; lobes 5-10 cm.

Inflorescence / Flower

Spadix from axil of fallen leaves just below crown. Spathe many, membranous, flowers small, sunken in branches of spadix; male flowers scarlet; female flowers lilac or violet, peduncles branched.

Fruit and Seed

Fruit subglobose, rather compressed, 1-1.2 cm diameter, red, 1-seeded.

Monoecious palms to 20 m tall; stem 20 cm thick, annulate, caudex 2-3 m across. Leaves pinnately compound; leaflets 50-70 x 3-5 cm, linear-lanceolate, evenly scattered, sessile; petiole 30-60 cm long, sheath rounded, 55 cm long, 26 cm broad, encircling the stem. Spadix axillary, below the leaves, branched, 30-50 cm across; spathes many. Male flowers small or sunken in the spirally arranged pits towards the tips of branches; perianth lobes 6, biseriate, outer smaller, 5 mm across, orbicular, inner longer; stamens 6, free. Female flowers larger, towards the base of the branches of spadix; ovary 3-celled, 1 cell larger with an ovule. Fruit subglobose, 1.2 x 0.9 cm, dark, pink.

Bentinckia condapanna Berry ex Roxb. | Species (indiabiodiversity.org)

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