Bactris gasipaes

Bactris gasipaes
 Kunth


Original
reference:
F.W.H.A.von Humboldt, A.J.A. Bonpland & C.S. Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: 302 (1816)


Morphology:
Subcanopy palm. Stems solitary or clustered, 5-15 m tall, 10-20 cm in diameter. Leaf blade 2-3.5 m long; pinnae 100-125 on each side, inserted in groups and spreading in different planes, the central ones 60-80 cm long and 3-5 cm wide. Inflorescences 40-75 cm long; branches 50-80, to 35 cm long. Female flowers scattered along the branches. Fruit globose to ovoid, yellow to red, smooth, 1.5-5 cm long; fruiting perianth with a very small calyx and a much longer, briefly lobed corolla; staminodial ring absent.



Distribution:
Widespread in the neotropics, mostly cultivated.

Notes:
Includes two varities, more or less identical vegetatively, but different in the size of their fruits: a cultivated/domesticated large fruited form, var. gasipaes, and a native, small fruited form, var. chichagui.


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