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Africa allies America apex apical Areca Arecoid palms Arenga aroids Asia axillary base Beccari bisexual Borassoid Borassus botanical botanist bracts branches Brazil Calamus carpels Caryota climbers climbing Cocoid palms coconut coconut palm Cocos Corypha Coryphoid palms cotyledon crown Daemonorops date-palm Desmoncus develop dicotyledonous dioecious distribution Elaeis endosperm Eugeissona evolution fan-leafed feet female flowers fibrous Figure fish-tail flora flowering plants folds forest fruit genera genus Geonoma grow hapaxanthic herbarium Hyphaene induplicate inflorescence internodes Islands Korthalsia leaf leaf-axis leaf-bases leaf-sheaths leaf-stalk leaflets leaves Lepidocaryoid palms Licuala Livistona Lodoicea Madagascar Malaya Malaysia male flowers Manicaria Martius massive Mauritia Metroxylon monocotyledons neotenic oil palm ovary ovule palmate pandans perianth Phoenix Phytelephas Pinanga pinnate pinnate-leafed primitive Ptychosperma Raphia rattans roots ruminate Sabal Salacca seedling seeds sheath South spathes species spikes spines spiny split stalk stamens stem stem-apex stemless subfamily syncarpous terminal inflorescence Teysmannia tissue trees tropical trunk tufted unbranched vascular bundles