Which Rhapis species did I buy?

[doranakandawatta]

I found this little beauty in Colombo plants Sale, but I ignore the species, Does someone on Palmtalk - or in Germany (lol) - know the species?

Thanks,

[User00]

i think the common rhapis

[Pal Meir]

9 hours ago, doranakandawatta said:

I found this little beauty in Colombo plants Sale, but I ignore the species, Does someone on Palmtalk - or in Germany (lol) - know the species?

Thanks,

Looking like »the common« R excelsa; the older Rhapis in the background are definitely R excelsa.

[doranakandawatta]

4 hours ago, User00 said:

i think the common rhapis

OMG!

I think the photo is not good, it's much smaller than a normal excelsa, which you can see in the background as Palmeir noticed.

If it is the common Rhapis, I paid 1'500 rs, Ahamed, it's expensive then!

[Pal Meir]

26 minutes ago, doranakandawatta said:

OMG!

I think the photo is not good, it's much smaller than a normal excelsa, which you can see in the background as Palmeir noticed.

If it is the common Rhapis, I paid 1'500 rs, Ahamed, it's expensive then!

What is the diameter of the stem (close-up)? And a close-up of the leaflet tips would also be helpful. It could also be R robusta or R siamensis ???

[doranakandawatta]

1 hour ago, Pal Meir said:

What is the diameter of the stem (close-up)? And a close-up of the leaflet tips would also be helpful. It could also be R robusta or R siamensis ???

Sorry it's night now, and I am leaving tonight, so I can't make photos, but the diameter of the stem is around 6 or 7 mm. 
In Colombo they said it's R. subtilis, anyway it's a small lovely plant.

[Pal Meir]

19 minutes ago, doranakandawatta said:

Sorry it's night now, and I am leaving tonight, so I can't make photos, but the diameter of the stem is around 6 or 7 mm. 
In Colombo they said it's R. subtilis, anyway it's a small lovely plant.

If it was labelled as R subtilis it could be R siamensis (= R subtilis var. siamensis) because the blades are not split to the base.

 

[doranakandawatta]

May the coconut shells give the scale , this is a small Rhapis!

[Pal Meir]

R. subtilis and R. siamensis are now merged together again to one species R. subtilis (Henderson 2016).

http://www.palmpedia.net/wiki/Rhapis_siamensis

Henderson 2016:

http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.258.2.3

[doranakandawatta]

8 hours ago, Pal Meir said:

R. subtilis and R. siamensis are now merged together again to one species R. subtilis (Henderson 2016).

http://www.palmpedia.net/wiki/Rhapis_siamensis

Henderson 2016:

http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.258.2.3

Thank you very much for these informations.