1 <taxonx xmlns:
dc=
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5 <mods:title>Manual to the palms of Ecuador
</mods:title>
7 <mods:name type=
"personal">
8 <mods:namePart type=
"family">Borchsenius
</mods:namePart>
9 <mods:namePart type=
"given">F.
</mods:namePart>
11 <roleTerm type=
"text">author
</roleTerm>
12 <roleTerm type=
"code">aut
</roleTerm>
15 <mods:name type=
"personal">
16 <mods:namePart type=
"family">Pedersen
</mods:namePart>
17 <mods:namePart type=
"given">H.B.
</mods:namePart>
19 <roleTerm type=
"text">author
</roleTerm>
20 <roleTerm type=
"code">aut
</roleTerm>
23 <mods:name type=
"personal">
24 <mods:namePart type=
"family">Balslev
</mods:namePart>
25 <mods:namePart type=
"given">H.
</mods:namePart>
27 <roleTerm type=
"text">author
</roleTerm>
28 <roleTerm type=
"code">aut
</roleTerm>
32 <mods:publisher>AAU Reports
37. Department of Systematic Botany, University of Aarhus, Denmark in collaboration with Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica del Ecuador
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33 <mods:dateIssued>1998</mods:dateIssued>
38 <treatment rank=
"species">
40 <name>Aiphanes ulei
</name>
41 <author>(Dammer) Burret
</author>
42 <citation>Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem
11:
568 (
1932)
</citation>
44 <div type=
"introduction"><p></p></div>
45 <div type=
"etymology"><p></p></div>
46 <div type=
"vernacular"><p></p></div>
47 <div type=
"description"><p>Understorey palm. Stem solitary, short and subterranean, or well developed, to
5 m tall,
2.5-
5 cm in diameter. Leaf blade
60-
180 cm long; pinnae
9-
15 on each side, wedge shaped, inserted in groups of
2-
3 and spreading in different planes, grey-silverish green below, the central ones
15-
35 cm long and
8-
20 cm wide, with a sinuously V-shaped incision at apex. Inflorescence
75-
150 cm long, with
30-
40 thick, adpressed branches. Flowers white or yellow. Fruits less than
1 cm in diameter, bright red, often angled from mutual pressure.
</p></div>
48 <div type=
"distribution"><p>Moist to wet tropical and premontane forest in the W part of the Amazon basin in Colombia, Brazil, Peru, and Ecuador.
</p></div>
49 <div type=
"biology_ecology"><p></p></div>
50 <div type=
"conservation"><p></p></div>
51 <div type=
"uses"><p></p></div>
52 <div type=
"discussion"><p>Two forms of this species appear to exist. The first is acaulescent and has white flowers, the other has a well developed aerial stem and yellow flowers.
</p></div>
53 <div type=
"materials_examined"><p></p></div>