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<taxonx xmlns:dc="http://digir.net/schema/conceptual/darwin/core/2.0" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
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<taxonxHeader>
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<mods:mods>
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<mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Rattans (canes) in India. A Monographic Revision</mods:title></mods:titleInfo>
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<mods:name>
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<mods:namePart type="family">Basu</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart type="given">S.K.</mods:namePart>
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</mods:name>
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<mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued>1992</mods:dateIssued>
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<mods:publisher>Forest Research Institute, Malaysia</mods:publisher>
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</mods:originInfo>
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<treatment rank="species">
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<nomenclature>
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<name>Plectocomia bractealis</name>
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<author>Becc.</author>
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<citation>Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 12(2): 1918</citation>
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<bibref>Madulid in Kalikasan 10: 19</bibref>
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</nomenclature>
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<div type="introduction"><p></p></div>
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<div type="etymology"><p></p></div>
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<div type="vernacular"><p></p></div>
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<div type="description"><p>Vegetative parts unknown. Bracts on flower branches of female inflorescence 7-7.5 x 3 cm, thickly covered with indumentum. Female flowers 5 in number in each bract, pedicel late, bracteolate; bracteoles 5-15 mm long, acuminate, tomentose outside; calyx deeply divided into 3 elongate, triangular, acuminate, 10-13 mm long sepals; each striated and puberulous outside; petals 3, broad-based, lanceolate, acuminate, 1.5 -1.8 cm long; ovary coarsely woolly outside; wools arise from the laciniate points of scales; style short, conical, trigonous with subulate stigmas not longer than sepals; staminodes with narrowly sagittate sterile anthers.</p></div>
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<div type="distribution"><p>INDIA (Upper Assam). Endemic.</p></div>
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<div type="biology_ecology"><p>Unknown.</p></div>
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<div type="cultivation"><p>Not cultivated at present.</p></div>
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<div type="conservation"><p></p></div>
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<div type="uses"><p>Unknown</p></div>
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<div type="discussion"><p>According to Beccari (1918), type specimens were collected from a plant cultivated in the then East India Company's botanic Garden, in Calcutta (now Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah). This species is no longer in the Garden.</p></div>
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<div type="materials_examined"><p>Upper Assam Holotype! Masters s.n. (CAL Ace. no. 495006).</p></div>
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</treatment>
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