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Collector Moore,Jr., H.E.
Number 6593
Collected with  
Country Costa Rica
Subpart Heredia
County  
Locality Wooded area between Chilomate and La Virgen, valley of the Rio Sarapaqui.
Coordinates    
Minimum elevation (m) 160
Maximum elevation (m) 160
Start date 1953/03/25
End date 1953/03/25
Family Arecaceae
Identification Euterpe precatoria Mart.
Determined by Bernal, R.; Galeano, G.
Identification qualifier  
Field notes Stems solitary with short brown adventitous roots, 40 ft high, 5 - 6 in. D. B. H. becoming slender above to a green crownshaft 4 ft long. Leaves ca. 10, spreading in a graceful coma, the pinnae hanging, ca. 77 per side, the petiole ca. 14 in long, rachis 10 1/2 ft. Leaves deep green. Spadices 2, infrafoliar, erect-spreading, rachillae on all sides at tip, few upper side, all straight and spreading, spadix whitish in fruit, the fruit green (immature) globose with plane endosperm.

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