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| Collector | Henderson, A. |
| Number | 806 |
| Collected with | M.Aubry |
| Country | Haiti |
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| Locality | Departement de Sud, 10 km E of Les Cayes at Dumay, old road by bridge over D10 Gomier, steep slope on limestone soil |
| Coordinates | 18° 16' N 73° 43' W |
| Minimum elevation (m) | 50 |
| Maximum elevation (m) | 50 |
| Start date | 1988/11/14 |
| End date | 1988/11/14 |
| Family | Arecaceae |
| Identification | Attalea crassispatha Burret |
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| Field notes | Stem solitary, 10 m tall, 33 cm diam, smooth, gray. Leaves 19, ascending; petiole and sheath 130 cm long, sparsely fibrous on margins, flat adaxially, rounded abaxially; rachis 320 cm long; pinnae 127 per side, regurlarly arranged, opposite to sub-opposite, in one plane. Inflorescence interfoliar; prophyll 40 x 20 cm, becoming very fibrous at apex; rachis to 40 cm long; rachillae to severel hundred with 0-8 pistillate flowers per rachillae (i.e., inflorescence either predominantly staminate or pistillate and staminate). Comon names: Palmiste, Cocorosse. The tree had a bird’s nest in it (oiseau palmiste) and a woodpecker had made holes in several peduncular bracts |
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