

This rare palm is known only from the Ankify Peninsula in northwestern Madagascar, where it grows in dense, seasonally moist coastal forests. This medium-sized palm quickly forms a slender, straight, and smooth trunk, reaching up to 10 m (33 ft) tall and bearing numerous ascending, slightly keeled, curved leaves with narrow, dark green leaflets. The seeds are very similar in size and character to those of Ravenea cycadifolia and Ravenea glauca and, unfortunately, are just as perishable. The first leaf (eophyll) is pinnate. Ravenea sp. 'Ankify' was discovered almost 20 years ago, and there is no other Ravenea currently known to science to which it matches.
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