Perbungaan Salak Bali

Abstract

In this study the genuine staminate plant of the salak Bali palm (Salacca zalacca var. amboinensis) in its population has never been reported. Although “salak muani” plant, means the staminate plant; is well known among the local farmer as the salak Bali plant which never produce fruit, it is revealed that the inflorescence of salak muani plant has the same morphology as the common inflorescence of the fertile salak Bali plants, except the size. Salak muani’s inflorescence is twice larger than the inflorescence of the fruiting plant. The inflorescence consists of 1 to 4 rachillas. Each rachilla often carries 6-9 branches of reduced small rachillas. The inflorescence of salak muani consists of about 40 to 70 pairs of flowers, each pair consists of an hermaphrodite flower bearing sterile stamen, and a staminate flower which also carries a sterile stamen.