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is used as a common name for the plant. It has a thick pseudo-trunk consisting of accumulated leaf-bases, with a cluster of long, slender leaves on top. The trunk is usually unbranched, but can branch if the growing tip is damaged. Flowers occur in egg-shaped clusters on the ends of up to 100 long
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so decayed and imperfect that I have not been able to determine the structure either of its flower or fruit."
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also contained the first textual reference to this species: in the botanical index, Brown writes:
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