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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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HYOSPATHE Mart.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Hist. Nat. Palm. 2:1. 1823.
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Description
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Arundinaceous small erect spineless glabrous pinnate-leaved or pinnatisect monoecious palms with infrafoliar inflorescences: flowers small, in branched spadices, on long slender rachillae, normally 1 pistillate between 2 slender stami- nates but placement often irregular; spathes long and slender, at base of spadix and at first inclosing it; staminate flowers with 3 long narrow valvate petals and 3 small connate sepals, stamens 6; pistillate flowers much smaller, sepals and petals imbricate, pistil 3-loculed, staminodia present: fruit a small ellipsoid drupe-like body, 1-seeded, scarcely fleshy, about 1 cm. long; embryo basilar.
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Distribution
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About a dozen South American species, one of them in Panama.
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Note
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Hyospathe pubigera of Trinidad is Prestoea pubigera Nichols.
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