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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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PRESTOEA Hook. f.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Gen. P1. 3:899. 1883
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Reference
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Bailey, Gent. Herb. 4:382. 1940.
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Description
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Small trees of the Euterpe kind but without crownshaft above spadices or flower-clusters, pistillate spadices with short ascending or divaricate rather than long slender and drooping rachillae and that are attached to rachis by a swollen or bulboid base, petals of pistillate flowers convolute-imbricate rather than valvate: fruit gibbous or lop-sided; seed lacking a fibrous covering and with a marbled or tessellate exterior; albumen strongly ruminate.
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Note
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Three species distinguished in the farther West Indies, one in Panama, one known only in cultivation some fifty years ago in England said to have come from Guatemala.
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