Oraniopsis

Description

Trunk up to 20 m tall, 20-45 cm in diam. at breast height, gray, irregularly marked with leaf scars. Leaves about 8-15 in crown, up to about 6 m long; sheathing base cuplike, rather short about 20 cm wide at the base, tapering to about 15 cm wide, and then narrowing into the petiole; petiole up to about 65 cm long, up to about 7.0 x 6.0 em in section, the margins ± winged, about 12 cm deep, sharp, abaxially brown tomentose; rachis becoming adaxially ridged at about half its length; leaflets up to about 110 on each side of the rachis, the apical pair composed of 2-4 folds, the rest all singlefold, basal leaflets about 15-20 x 0.5-0.8 cm, mid-leaf leaflets to about 100 x 4.5 cm, apical pair up to about 43 x 4.5 cm, leaflets held at about 60°