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Collector Barfod, A.S.
Number 11
Collected with G.McPherson
Country Panama
Subpart Panama
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Locality Rio Mamoni valley, creeks at Rio Caspas Sabana (type locality!) and at Rio Corpus Cristi ("Golpo Crisco") app 50 m
Coordinates 9° 15' N 79° 7' W
Minimum elevation (m) 0
Maximum elevation (m) 0
Start date 1987/03/06
End date 1987/03/06
Family Arecaceae
Identification Phytelephas seemannii O.F.Cook
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Field notes Solitary understory palm with procumbent stem. Number of leaves 10. Male inflorescences 4: one ca. 1 week past anthesis, the other three much older; peduncle app. 65 cm long; prophyll 30 cm long, brown, covered by gray crustaceous lichens in patches, flattened and 7 cm wide, splitting apically, with lateral app. 1 cm wide runs; sheathing bract inserted at 25 cm above the base, 44 cm long, splitting adaxially app. is cm down from apex; rachis 54 cm long, 1.2 cm in diam (probably shrieked considerably proportional to to the newly appeared inflorescence

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