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Collector Balslev, H.
Number 2911
Collected with Rocio Alarcon
Country Ecuador
Subpart NAPO
County  
Locality Río Yasuni ca 12 km upstream from entrance into Río Napo. Tropical rainforest, disturbed only by slight lumbering activity. Etnobotanical information by Sr. Flavio Cabrera and his wife who lives ca 4 km upstream from the Río Yasuni - Río Napo junction.
Coordinates 0° 57' S 75° 25' W
Minimum elevation (m) 200
Maximum elevation (m) 200
Start date 1982/08/25
End date 1982/08/25
Family Arecaceae
Identification Euterpe precatoria var. precatoria Mart.
Determined by H. Balslev
Identification qualifier  
Field notes A slender palm tree to 30 m high. Base surrounded by dense cover of adventitions roots, each 7-8 mm in diam, reddish. Trunk smooth ca 15 cm in diam, greyish. Crown with leaves with arching rachis and two rows of dropping leaflets. Specimen taken from young individual. Leaves with envoloping leafsheats to 50 m long leaf ca 3 m long, 80 cm wide, ? ca 60 leaflees on each side.

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