Gallery

Ptychosperma elegans habit; several individual palms in landscape

Ptychosperma elegans crown shaft

Ptychosperma elegans stem with leaf scar rings and inflorescence

Ptychosperma elegans apical leaflets

Ptychosperma elegans leaf with fused apical leaflets

Ptychosperma elegans praemorse leaflet tips

Ptychosperma elegans rachis with leaflet attachment

Ptychosperma elegans with ramenta along midrib

Ptychosperma elegans closer view of ramenta along midrib (mm scale)

Ptychosperma elegans magnified view of ramenta along midrib

Ptychosperma elegans flowers

Ptychosperma elegans with ripe, red fruit

Ptychosperma elegans closer view of fruit and leaf scar rings

Ptychosperma macarthurii habit

Ptychosperma macarthurii stems with leaf scar rings

Ptychosperma macarthurii with fruit

Ptychosperma macarthurii closer view of fruit and leaflet tips

Ravenea rivularis habit

Ravenea rivularis habit of young plant

Ravenea rivularis stem with leaf scars

Ravenea rivularis new leaf with reins

Ravenea rivularis new leaf rachis and leaflets

Ravenea rivularis rachis and leaflet with tan ramenta (mm scale)

Ravenea rivularis closer view of leaflet undersurface with tan ramenta (mm scale)

Ravenea rivularis inflorescence.Photograph courtesy of Scott Zona.

Ravenea rivularis inflorescence with developing fruit

Rhapidophyllum hystrix in landscape

Rhapidophyllum hystrix leaf bases, petioles and spines

Rhapidophyllum hystrix leaf bases, petioles and spines with male inflorescence

Rhapidophyllum hystrix closer view of "needles"

Rhapidophyllum hystrix leaf

Rhapidophyllum hystrix abaxial view of "minorly costapalmate" leaf and tomentum