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(Last Modified On 10/24/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/24/2012)
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Genus
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MALORTIEA Wendl.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Berliner Allgem. Gartenzeit. 21:25, 145. 1853
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Reference
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Hook. f. in Benth. & Hook. Gen. P1. 3:906. 1883.
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Description
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Small often nearly or quite acaulescent spineless glabrous monoecious palms with unequally or imperfectly pinnate or pinnatisect dentate leaves or the blade sometimes simple and lobed, parts broadest toward the top and not attenuate- pointed: spadices interfoliar, consisting of 2-4 very short rachillae that bear both staminate and pistillate flowers in the axil of a short bract or lip; stamens 9 or more, within angled striate floral envelopes; ovary more or less 3-loculed; staminodia usually present: fruit oblong or ellipsoid, small, not fleshy, obtuse or umbonate, 1-seeded; albumen plain, flinty.
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Distribution
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About a half dozen species in forests and shady moist places, Mexico to Panama;
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Note
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generic limits not yet w ell understood.
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