| 1. | Buds are almost hidden by the leaf base, egg-shaped and bright green.
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| 2. | It descends from just below the tip down to the leaf base.
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| 3. | The leaf base of some palms are also used to extract coir.
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| 4. | The leaf base and petiole are covered with rows of pointy spines.
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| 5. | The tip tapers to a point, the leaf base is oblique.
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| 6. | Older specimens lose the leaf base scars and gain a more checkerboard appearance.
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| 7. | The leaf base slowly tapers away with a thin beginning of the leaf.
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| 8. | This mine is similar to the first, but ends near the leaf base.
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| 9. | Mature leaves have two whitish oval glands on opposite sides of the leaf base.
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| 10. | The leaf base is twisted so that the leaf surface is usually close to vertical.
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