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<mods:titleInfo>

<mods:title>Guide to Philippine Flora and Fauna. Vol. IV.</mods:title>

</mods:titleInfo>

<mods:name>

<mods:namePart type="family">de Guzman</mods:namePart>

<mods:namePart type="given">E.D.</mods:namePart>

<mods:namePart type="family">Fernando</mods:namePart>

<mods:namePart type="given">E.S.</mods:namePart>

</mods:name>

<mods:originInfo>

<mods:publisher>Natural resources Management Center, Minstry of Natural Resources and university of Phillipines</mods:publisher>

<mods:dateIssued>1986</mods:dateIssued>

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<treatment rank="species">

<nomenclature>

<name>Korthalsia scaphigeroides</name>

<author>Becc.</author>

<citation>Philipp. J. Sci., C 4: 619 (1909)</citation>

</nomenclature>

<div type="introduction"><p></p></div>

<div type="etymology"><p></p></div>

<div type="vernacular"><p>Ant Palm (Engl.); Kaporigid (Pil.).</p></div>

<div type="diagnosis"><p></p></div>

<div type="description"><p>Rather slender, the sheathed stem apparently 15-18 mm in diameter. Ochrea elongate-elliptic, ventricose 9 to 10 cm long, 2 cm broad, thinly coriaceous, armed with small scattered, short, rigid prickles. Leaves with a slender biconvex, flattened petiolar part, about 20 cm long, 4 mm broad, with rather obtuse and smooth edges, armed claws, rachis in the intermediate portion armed almost regularly with ternate claws, leaflets distinctly ansate, narrowly rhomboid-cuneate, broadest above their middle, 15 to 20 cm long, 4 to 5 cm broad, rather accurately praemorse-dentate in the upper margins and produced at the summit into an acuminate point, green above, white beneath, with about 7 primary costae. Spadix unknown. The leaf-sheaths of this palm is interestingly inhabited by colonies of ants. The seeds, so far, is the means of its propagation.</p></div>

<div type="distribution"><p>Mindanao (Agusan, Surigao, Zamboanga), Basilan. Endemic.</p></div>

<div type="biology_ecology"><p>Growing in primary forests at low altitudes.</p></div>

<div type="conservation"><p>Indeterminate.</p></div>

<div type="uses"><p>It can be used as those of Daemonorops and Calamus in furniture and basket making.</p></div>

<div type="discussion"><p></p></div>

<div type="materials_examined"><p></p></div>

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