HETEROSPATHE
LPG Area:
New Guinea Place, Tahiti Trail, Taveuni Trail.
Distribution:
Approximately 32 species from the Philippines & Micronesia to eastern Indonesia and to the Solomon Islands
 
   
H. longipes, July 2006
H. glauca    
 

April 2006

 
 
January 2007
     
H. longipes    

formerly Alsmithia longipes
The botanists who studied Alsmithia longipes concluded that the genetic difference between that palm and the genus Heterospathe did not justify a separate genus for the (former) Alsmithia longipes.
  
 

Infructescence of H. longipes
Inflorescence of Heterospathe longipes, May 2006
     
 
August 2006
     
 
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