Geonoma congesta
H.Wendl. ex Spruce
Original
reference:
J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 11: 112 (1871)
Morphology:
Understorey palm. Stems clustered, to 3 m long, ca. 3 cm in diameter, light brown, very hard, often decumbent, with suckers at some of the nodes. Leaf blade 70-120 cm long, simple or irregularly divided into 2-10, strongly unequal pinnae on each side, these more or less hard and leathery; petiole concave above, with sharp margins Inflorescence once branched; peduncle 10-30 cm long, somewhat flattened; branches 3-13, to 20 cm long, 4-6 mm in diameter, borne on a short rachis. Female flowers with staminodes united into a tube. Fruits black, globose, rough, ca. 1 cm in diameter.
Distribution:
Central America to N Ecuador, W of the Andes, below 900 m elevation.
Common
names:
Cortadera
–
Spanish
(D. Rubio #1146).
Santipava
–
(D. Rubio #1258).
Uses:
For thatching of houses
(D. Rubio #1258).
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