Chelyocarpus ulei

Chelyocarpus ulei
Dammer


Original
reference:

Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dalem 7: 395 (1920)


Morphology:
Understorey palm. Stem solitary, erect, to 5 m tall, 6-8 cm in diameter. Leaves with petiole 1-1.5 m long; blade palmate 1.2-1.6 m in diameter, silverish white below, deeply split into 8-10 segments, that in their turn are partially split for up to half their length into one-ribbed teeth. Inflorescences 60-100 cm long, the basal part covered with bracts with a greyish white waxy tomentum. Flowers 3-5 mm long, first cream coloured, then purplish. Fruits 2-3 cm in diameter, light brown, with corky-warty surface.



Distribution:
W Amazon region in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil, usually below 500 m elevation.

Notes:
The only native Ecuadorian representative of the Coryphoid palm subfamily.


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