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Collector Moore,Jr., H.E.
Number 6532
Collected with  
Country Costa Rica
Subpart Puntarenas
County  
Locality Infrequent in low areas at Tinoco Station, about 25 km. from Palmar Sur on Golfito railroad, near sea level
Coordinates    
Minimum elevation (m) 0
Maximum elevation (m) 0
Start date 1953/03/07
End date 1953/03/07
Family Arecaceae
Identification Socratea exorrhiza (Mart.)H. Wendl.
Determined by R. Bernal & G. Galeano
Identification qualifier  
Field notes Trunk erect with spiny stilt roots to ca. 6 ft. high, 50 to 60 ft. tall, 6 inches DBH, brown, ringed. Spadix infrafoliar, pendulous, spathes deciduous, rachillae 12 to many, immature fruit green ellipsoid, 2.5 x 3 cm. Leaf with petiole 8 in. long, rachis 7 ft. long, pinnae 19-20 per side, rachis green with tan tomentum below, brown tomentose above. Pinnae inserted on rachis, dissected, the lower 2 entire, the segments in several planes, green above, veins yellow, opposite and regulary arranged. Sheat pale green, slender, closed, ca. 4 ft. long

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