Ammandra decasperma O.F.Cook

Ammandra decasperma
O.F.Cook

Original
reference:
J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 17: 220 (1927)

Morphology:
Understorey palm. Stem usually solitary, short, subterranean or prostrate, 10-15 cm in diameter below the crown. Leaves erect; petiole 1.5-2.5 m long; blade 2-3 m long; pinnae 35-60 on each side, the central ones 50-70 cm long, briefly pointed at apex. Male inflorescence pendulous, to 50 cm long, yellow. Female inflorescence 10-15 cm long, cream coloured, compact. Infructescence 20-25 cm in diameter, with a 10-15 cm long peduncle; fruits 4-10 per infructescence, dark brown.

Distribution:
Pacific Colombia from Valle del Cauca to Chocó and Antioquia and disjunct in W part of the Amazon basin in S Colombia and Ecuador. In closed forest.

Common
names:
Nume blanco
–
Spanish, Cofán
(Barfod 1991a).

Patisa´cco
–
Cofán
(Borman 1976).

Patisako
–
Cofán
(Barfod 1991a).

Patisako numemba
–
Cofán
(Barfod 1991a).

Patisako nume badiishii
–
Cofan
(Barfod 1991a).

Tagua blanca
–
Spanish, Quichua
(Barfod 1991a).

Tëte seva
–
Siona
(H.B. Pedersen #104015 ).

Tûteswa
–
Siona
(Barfod 1991a).

Yarina blanca
–
Siona
(Balslev & Barfod 1987).

Yarina blanco
–
Spanish, Quichua
(Barfod 1991a).