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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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GEONOMA CONGESTA Wendl.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 11:112. 1871.
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Description
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Trunks or canes cespitose, 4-5 m. tall and 25 mm. thick, remotely annulate with rings 10-20 cm. apart: leaves about 2 m. long, dark green and shining, blade elongate-obovate, cuneate at base and deeply bifid at apex with very long-acuminate or thin caudate lobes sometimes irregularly pinnatisect with a few narrow lateral lobes close together, stiff or rigid in texture, with 50-60 strong lengthwise nerves either side and no definite midrib to the 2 broad terminal lobes:spadices short, issuing from ribbed cymbas 10-20 cm. long, that are short-acute or almost obtuse at the apex, peduncle 6-9 cm. long, branches 7-11, at first hanging but soon wide-spreading and sprawling, each branch about 10 cm. long and 6 mm. thick with the pointed divergent bracts conspicuous: fruit broad-ellipsoid, about 15 mm. long and 12 mm. thick, gray, surface drying rough; cupule small, the narrow acute parts nearly separte.
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Distribution
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Panama, Costa Rica.
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Specimen
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PANAMA: headwaters of Rio Chinilla above Nuevo Limon, Maxon 6903 (det. Burret).
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PlaceOfPublication
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Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 11:110. 1871
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Reference
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Burret, in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. 63:227. 1930.
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Description
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Slender tree, with graceful arching pinnate very strongly veined leaves that are more or less brownish from minute pubescence or furfur; petiole 30-50 cm. long, flattish on under surface, -ridged on upper face, more or less pubescent or thinly furfuraceous; blade 75 cm.-1 m. long, irregularly pinnate; pinnae well separated, many pairs but not definitely opposite, 30-40 cm. long, attached by broad bases, terminal pair 4-8 cm. broad, some of the others as narrow as 1 cm., conspicuously parallel-nerved with many light-colored ribs that stand 5-7 cm. apart, apex narrowly long-acuminate: spathe-valves narrow, broad and essentially obtuse at end, brown-pubescent; spadix 18-30 cm. across either way at full expansion, brown-pubescent, rachillae simple from different sides of the rachis or sometimes once-forked, 8-12 cm. long, lower lip of alveole 2-fid but soon falling from some of the pits: -fruit (immature) oblong, 8 mm. long but probably becoming 12 mm. or more long, surface roughened, cupule of narrow-lobed parts.
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Distribution
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Panama, Costa Rica.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: rain forest, Bajo Chorro, Boquete District, Davidson 377. Burret, in describing the plant from old collections in the Turrialba region of Costa Rica, says that this palm is 3-4 m. high; Davidson records it as 30-40 feet.
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