(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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BACTRIS DIVISICUPULA Bailey
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PlaceOfPublication
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Gent. Herb. 6:230. 1943.
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Description
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Slender, 4 m. tall; trunk arundinaceous, 2.5 cm. or less thick, pithy in center, nodes 6-7 cm. apart and the intervals nude; leaf-sheaths long and tightly closing and thickly provided with brownish-white black-based flat spines 3 mm.-4 cm. long: leaves glossy and glabrous, 1 m. or less long,- irregularly pinnate, bearing flat spines between the pinnae on some parts of the rachis, and the pinnae some- times few; pinnae 30-40 cm. long, some of them 4-5 cm. broad and others (par- ticularly the terminal pair) as much as 9 or 10 cm. broad, apex slenderly caudate, the 5-7 prominent nerves widely spaced and the midrib not much more prominent than they; rachis nearly-terete, glabrous except for indistinct lines of furfuraceous pubescence: cymba maturing often below the falling leaves, 15-20 cm. long, densely clothed with tawny flat prickles 2 cm. or less long: fruiting spadix short, 8-9 cm. across either way, the few short branches or rachillae pubescent; fruit oblate-pyriform, 11-14 mm. thick, top flat, beak pronounced, surface glabrous and when dry faintly striate, thin mesocarp adhering tightly to the large nutlet; cupule strongly divided into broad lobes or parts in each series.
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Distribution
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Panama.
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Specimen
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COCLP: northwest rim of El Valle de Ant6n, alt. about 600 m., Allen 1817.
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