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Collector Moore,Jr., H.E.
Number 6534
Collected with  
Country Costa Rica
Subpart Puntarenas
County  
Locality Esquinas forest preserve between Palmar Sur and Golfito on United Fruit Co. railroad.
Coordinates 8° 51' 14.41'' N 83° 21' 42.96'' W
Minimum elevation (m) 0
Maximum elevation (m) 0
Start date 1953/03/09
End date 1953/03/09
Family Arecaceae
Identification Geonoma congesta H.Wendl. ex Spruce
Determined by Bernal, R.; Galeano, G.
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Field notes Caespitose with few erect grey-brown trunks to 20 ft high or perhaps more and 1 1/2 to 2 inches thick. Leaves about 12 in an erect, spreading coma, the sheats not close but with fibrous anti-petiolar cover that remains as coarse marginal fibers. Pinnae the rachis green. Spadices infrafoliar, several per stem orange at maturity, the globose fruit green when immature, the female flowers white. Leaves irregularly pinnate. Only one clump seen.

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