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Collector Balslev, H.
Number 62430
Collected with Bergmann, B. & Pedersen, H. B.
Country Ecuador
Subpart PASTAZA
County  
Locality Puyo - Macas road km 8 and 2 km to the east. Tropical rain forest on Andean foothills.
Coordinates 1° 30' S 77° 57' W
Minimum elevation (m) 1080
Maximum elevation (m) 1080
Start date 1987/03/22
End date 1987/03/22
Family Arecaceae
Identification Geonoma stricta subsp. arundinacea (Mart.) A.J.Hend.
Determined by A. Henderson
Identification qualifier  
Field notes Solitary understory palm. Stem 5 - 80 cm long, 1.5 - 2 cm in diam, conspicuously ringed, internodes ca. 0.5 cm long, yellow brown, smooth. Crown of 8 erect leaves; sheath open to the base, sheath and peduncle 70 cm long, the base rounded below and flat above, the top round in cross section, blade 50 x 30 cm with 2 x 3 pinnae of unequal size, sigmoid. Inflorescence interfoliar, unbranched erect and bending away from the leaves, blood red colour, prophyll ligth brown 13 x 1 cm, penducle 13 cm long, rounded; rachis with flowers, not producing rachillae, 16 X 1 cm, blood red.

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