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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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BACTRIS FUSCOSPINA Bailey
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PlaceOfPublication
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Gent. Herb. 6:228. 1943.
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Description
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Slender, leafy, arundinaceous, 3 m. tall; trunk 1.5-2 cm. thick, pithy, nodes about 5 cm. apart and usually spiny on at least one side, internodes nearly or quite nude, main spines mostly brown-black and 2-3 cm. long: leaves 1 m. and more long, glossy, glabrous, unequally and abruptly pinnate; petiole more or less scurfy or furfuraceous, very unevenly armed on the sheath with brown and tawny spines 5. mm.-3 cm. long; rachis glabrous or with traces of furfur, bearing on the lower part and petiole many broad tawny dark-tipped reflexed spines 4-4.5 cm. long; pinnae 12-16 either side the rachis, alternate and with long unoccupied spaces, 20-25 cm. long, 2.5-9 cm. broad, the terminal pair much the broadest, midrib often not definite, other ribs few to several and very prominent and with indistinct cross-veins between them on the upper surface, margins unarmed, apex acuminate and sometimes short-caudate: cymba 15-20 cm. long, narrow, densely covered with tawny spines 2 cm. or less- long: fruiting spadix 10 cm. long and broad, rachillae indifferently pubescent: fruit (immature) oblong-conic, prominently beaked, glabrous; cupule 5 mm. deep, outer series of 3 nearly separate striate lobes, inner series deeper and urceolate with a nearly- entire margin and the exterior prominently strongly setose (the setae likely to perish with handling).
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Distribution
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PANAMA
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Specimen
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Cerro Campana, Allen 2086.
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