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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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OENOCARPUS PANAMANUS. Bailey
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PlaceOfPublication
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Gent. Herb. 3:71. 1933.
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Description
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Graceful and slender but tall palm growing in small clumps usually with trunks of different ages, 25 m. and perhaps more tall, with a "smooth" look, the boles bamboo-like and ringed but not indented or notched, to 15 cm. thick; crown- shaft blackish-green: leaves long-pinnate, glabrous, 2 m. and more, spreading and downwardly curved; pinnae alternate, about 60 either side the concavo-convex rachis, 50-80 cm. long, 4 cm. or less broad, long-pointed, unequally bifid at apex, 2-3 ribs either side the midrib; petiole to 1 m. long, slender, terete except with deep narrow groove on upper side: spadix with short peduncle or handle, 1'5-25 cm. long, from which depend many'scurfy-pubescent rachillae 40-75 cm. long, closely flowered except the. tip which is naked for 2-5 cm.; spathe double, outer part of 2 woody valves 20-25 cm. long, inner or persistent part a tomentose tube or sleeve 30-40 cm. long that splits on one side; staminate flowers 3-5 mm. long in full bud, stamens 6 with short filaments and versatile anthers: fruit near base of rachillae that make prominent hanging cluster, black with hard exterior, short- ovoid to obscurely obovoid, 2-2.5 cm. long, with very short abrupt point; nutlet tightly inclosed in fibers, nearly globular, albumen white, center cavitous.
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Distribution
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Panama.
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Common
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Maquenque
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: in woods, Barro Colorado Island, Bailey 75 (TYPE).
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Note
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The tree may be mistaken for a Roystonea, and such confusion apparently fed to the early assignment of R. (Oreodoxa) regia to Panama.
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Habit
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tree
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