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(Last Modified On 10/24/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/24/2012)
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Species
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CHAMAEDOREA FLAVOVRENS Wendl.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Index Palm. 60. 1854.
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Description
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Very slender, 2.5 m. tall with a more or less crooked trunk or cane about 1 cm. thick: and rings 5-6 cm. apart, foliage yellowish-green: leaf-blade 30-35 cm. long, glabrous, somewhat lustrous, pinnate, rather thin and papery in texture; pinnae about 5 on either side, broadly oblong-acuminate, the terminal pair or bilobe much the broadest and the sinus more or less obtuse, others alternate, all sigmoid, short and rather abruptly contracted to an up-curved acumen, 15-20 cm. long, 4-6 cm. broad and the upper pair 8 cm., broader ones with 4-6 curved nerves and thinner ones between and not very arresting nor ridged even though prominent; petiole slender, about 20 cm. long above the conspicuously striate sheath, very narrowly channelled on upper face: pistillate spadix about 15 cm. long in fruit, of 5 or 6 ascending branches arising from near the top of the compressed about 5- or 6- bracted slender peduncle: fruit essentially globular or very short-oblong, black and glossy, somewhat fleshy, 1 cm. long when dry and mature and 8 or 9 cm. thick, obtuse, smooth but wrinkling in drying; cupule small and not prominent, outer series saucer-like, inner series lobed; seed contained in a striate case or shell, brown outside and inside, micropyle at base.
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Specimen
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PANAMA: Cerro Campana, trail from Campana to Chica, alt. 600-800 m., Allen 2644.
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Elevation
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600-800 m.
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Note
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This species is distinguished from C. Pacaya Oerst. by the much broader, more sigmoid, less pointed and more sparsely nerved pinnae; fruit black rather than yellow.
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