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نخل هایدریاستل مایکرو کارپا گونه ای نخل کمیاب بومی اندونزی است
مردم محلی جایی که این نخل خودرو است استفاده های زیادی از این درخت میکنند. گرچه در بقیه دنیا به عنوان نخلی زینتی کاشته میشود
این نخل استوایی هست و جایی گرم و مرطوب برای رشد لازم دارد
Hydriastele microspadix is a Clustering palm, often solitary, with long pinnate leaves to about 8 meters tall. Mature fruit is red or orange
Endemic to the Moluccan Islands of Maluku, and Ceram in Eastern Indonesia
Tall, slender palm to 15 m or more in height; stem 28 cm in diameter, leaves 17 in a crown, arcuate, sheath 76 cm long, petiole 30 cm long, blade 220 cm long; sheath (near top), petiole, and rachis minutely brown-dotted and thinly white-woolly, more thickly so above than below; pinnae erect, not drooping at the tips, 52 on each side of the rachis, to ll0 cm long, 3.5 cm wide, bifid to briefly praemorse at the tips, Iower surface with up to 4 small, pale ramenta scattered along the lower l5 cm of the midrib. Inflorescence about 50 cm long, with about 28 branches, the lower few again branched into several rachillae, incomplete peduncular bracts lacking; rachillae to about 42.5 cm long, about 2.5 mm wide, bearing about 280 triads. Staminate flowers unknown. Pistillate flowers about 2 mm high and broad. Fruit whitish when nearly mature, l0 X 3 mm, cylindrical and slightly curved
This species is not completely known yet. Staminate flowers have not been seen. The species is distinctive in its small fruit with very thin pericarp and poorly developed palisade layer. It appears to be most closely related to H. cylindrocarpa. The specific epithet was suggested by Professor Moore, to whose memory this paper is dedicated. H. microcarpa has the thinnest pericarp of all Hydriastele species, with markedly flattened fibrovascular bundles, and a locular epidermis only slightly modified in the direction of a palisade layer
It requires a moist, sheltered, position in the tropics
