Bactris coloniata
L.H.Bailey
Original
reference:
Gentes Herb. 3: 106 (1933)
Type:
Bailey 77 – Panama
Morphology:
Understorey palm. Stems clustered, 2.5-3 m tall, ca. 5 cm in diameter. Leaf axis with scattered, long, yellow spines; petiole ca. 1 m long; blade 175-200 cm long; pinnae 50-60 on each side, inserted in groups and spreading in different planes, the central ones 50-75 cm long and 3-6 cm wide, with asymetrical apex ending in a long tail. Inflorescence 25-50 cm long; branches ca. 25 branches, 10-12 cm long. Female flowers scattered along the branches. Fruits red to brownish red, rough, obovoid, flattened at top, strongly rostrate, 2-3 cm in diameter; fruiting perianth with calyx ca. as long as the corolla; staminodial ring absent.
Distribution:
Disjunct between Panamá-NW Colombia, W Ecuador, and E Ecuador-NE Peru (Dept. Amazonas).
In Ecuador it is known only from a few localities in tropical dry forest around the Jauneche forest reserve SW of Babahoyo, and from a single collection in the E lowlands.
Common
names:
Natul
–
(B. Bergmann #97807).
Uses:
Fruits edible
(B. Bergmann #97807).
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