Bactris coloradonis
L.H.Bailey
Original
reference:
Gentes Herb. 3: 104 (1933)
Lectotype:
Bailey 502 – Panama
Morphology:
Understorey palm. Stems clustered, to 2 m long and 2.5 cm in diameter. Leaves with petiole to 1 m long; blade ca. 150 cm long; pinnae 15-20 on each side, inserted in groups and spreading in different planes, the central ones lanceolate to inversely ovate, widest above the middle, ca. 50 cm long, and 6-7 cm wide. Inflorescence with 20-50 branches. Female flowers scattered along the branches. Fruits red, elliptic, smooth, ca. 2 x 1.5 cm; fruiting perianth with a very small calyx, and a much longer corolla; staminodial ring absent.
Distribution:
Costa Rica to Ecuador, W of the Andes.
In Ecuador it is rare in dry and moist forest types.
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