Editing Hyphaene coriacea (section)

===Description:===
''Hyphaene coriacea'' may have trunks up to
about 9m in height and 40cm in diameter
with occasional dichotomous branching,
but may also occur as a short-stemmed
cluster of plants. Trunks are scored
horizontally and prominently with the scars
from old leaf B\bases. Older and longer stems
tend to recline and suckering occurs from
the base to allow clump development. The
leaves are robust, thick, costapalmate, up
to 1.5m in diameter on a 1.5m long
petiole, the latter armed with thick, black,
recurved thorns along its margins. The
foliage is attractively grey-green with a
whitish bloom on the leaf undersurfaces.

Like all borassoid palms, the iLala is
dioecious. The inflorescence on male
plants is pendulous from the leaf axils and
terminates in catkin-like rachillae. Female
plants similarly bear pendulous
inflorescences from the leaf axils, on which great
bunches of fruit later develop, up to 2000
per plant being recorded.

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[[File:Hyphaene_ILALA1.JPG|frame|Figure 2. ''H. coriacea'' female plants in habitat near Hluhluwe in northern KwaZulu-Natal.]]
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[[File:Hyphaene_ILALA2.JPG|frame|Figure 3. ]]
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[[File:Hyphaene_ILALA3.JPG|frame|Figure 4. The male inflorescence of ''H. coriacea'' terminates in catkin-like rachillae.]]
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[[File:Hyphaene_ILALA4.JPG|frame|Figure 5. ]]
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[[File:Hyphaene_ILALA5.JPG|frame|Figure 6. ''H. coriacea'']]
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[[File:Hyphaene_ILALA6.JPG|frame|Figure 7. ''H. coriacea'']]
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[[File:Hyphaene_ILALA7.JPG|frame|Figure 8. ''H. coriacea'']]
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