Euterpe catinga
Wallace
Original
reference:
Palm Trees Amazon 27 (1853)
Morphology:
Subcanopy to canopy palm. Stems clustered, to 20 m tall, 10-15 cm in diameter. Leaves to 3 m long; crownshaft sometimes orange or red; petiole with numerous black adpressed scales; pinnae 40-60 on each side, regularly inserted, narrow, slightly pendulous, the central ones 40-70 cm long. Inflorescence erect, 30-50 cm long, with up to 100 branches inserted on all sides of the axis, these 3-4 mm in diameter and covered with short, whitish brown hairs. Fruits black, globose, ca. 1 cm in diameter. Endosperm homogeneous. Seedling leaves deeply bifid.
Distribution:
Patchily distributed E of the Andes in Venezuala, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil, in white sand areas below 350 m elevation and on the Andean slopes at 1100-1800 m elevation. In Ecuador it is known only from the mouth of the Pastaza valley near Puyo, in floodplain forest or in pasture.
Notes:
Two varieties are recognised. The Ecuadorian plants belong to var. roraimae (Dammer) A. J. Hend. & Galeano
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