Bactris simplicifrons
Mart.
Original
reference:
Hist. nat. palm. 2: 103 (1826)
Morphology:
Understorey palm. Stems solitary or clustered, to 1.5 m tall, only 5-6 mm in diameter. Plants spineless except for minute bristles along the outer leaf margin. Leaf blade 15-40 cm long, simple and then with rachis less than 10 cm long, or more or less regularly divided, with up to 7 sigmoid pinnae on each side, these inserted in one plane, the central ones to 16 cm long, 2.5-3.0 cm wide. Inflorescence unbranched, 4-8 cm long, with glabrous peduncular bract. Female flowers scattered along the branches, with a tubular calyx enclosing the corolla. Fruit 5-10 mm in diameter, yellow to red, glabrous; fruiting perianth with a 3-lobed calyx as long as the 3-lobed corolla; staminodial ring absent.
Distribution:
Throughout the Amazon region, in tropical moist and wet forest on terra firme.
Notes:
A widespread, variable species that includes several morphological forms joined by intermediate populations.
Common
names:
Yunis
–
Shuar
(B. Bergmann #97819).
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