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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 PROCUMBENS Wendl.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 11:105. 1871.
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Description
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Ordinarily seen as an acaulescent palm, the caudex rising little if at all above the ground, but sometimes making a leaning or inclined ringed trunk 2 m. tall and 7-8 cm. thick: leaves from apex of caudex, pinnate, glabrous, blade 1 m. or more long; petiole slender, sAmooth, often 1 m. long; pinnae about 24 pairs, mostly narrow but differing in width on the same leaf from 2 to 5 cm. except the terminal pair which may be 10 cm. or more broad, 40-50 cm. long, strongly nerved, base somewhat decurrent on the rachis, apex long-acuminate and prominently falcate:spadix a simple spike on a long slender erect peduncle from a lower axil, spathes bract-like on the peduncle, flowering part of the spike about 50 cm. long and 12-15 mm. thick, the flowers sunken in the rachilla in a closely packed sequence; staminate flowers whitish, soon perishing, the 6 anthers exserted, filaments connate in a tube; 3 white stigmas also exserted at anthesis: fruit at maturity 9-10-11 mm. long and about one-half as broad, ovoid-elliptic, pointed at either end, gray as if glaucous, very faintly striate, greenish on a dull red rachis; nutlet about 8 mm., albumen equable.
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Distribution
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Panama, woods and gulches, probably generally distributed; Costa Rica.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Barro Colorado Island; Quebrada Ancha, Dodge d Steyermark I7065. COCLE: north rim, El Valle de Anton, Allen I790, 2065. BOCAS DEL TORO: vicinity of Chiriqui Lagoon, von Wedel 22I4.
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