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Branches [[over-?-ing]] and layering from trees, very pretty like curtains of leaves. Dark solid [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] up to 1 cm cm in diameters, surface green, [[underlined]] asperous [[/underlined]], in almost all the length, from base to end of fronds _ bulbs sheath smooth green or dried beige the old with [[underlined]] well [[/underlined]] [[?]] [[?]] blade, narrow long, reflexed[[guess]]. (al little erect sit top of new shoots _ ferns _ [[underlined]] faint[[guess]] at base [[/underlined]] of culm
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[[??]] deciduous where branches develop. [[underlined]] Callous [[/underlined]] developed at base of sheath. (or sucker [[??]] - Sheath smooth with fringe of golden hairs all along edge,  +/- long oval setae
[[underlined]] Nodal [[reg-??]][/underlined] is quite prominent, with the ring of stiff[[guess]] hairs, golden, all around, like eyelashes.  They fall when sheath is very old. [[undecipherable sign]]  Part of sheath remain on lower ridge of nodal zone, as a "girdle"