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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
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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 verrucosa
</name>
41 <author>Borchs.
& Balslev
</author>
42 <citation>Nordic J. Bot.
9:
389 (
1989 publ.
1990)
</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. Stems clustered, to
5 m tall,
4-
5 cm in diameter. Leaves distichous. Leaf blade
100-
130 cm long; pinnae
50-
70 on each side, narrow, lanceolate, inserted in groups and pointing in all directions, the central ones
35-
40 cm long and
1.5-
2.5 cm wide, only slightly jagged at apex. Inflorescence
80-
120 cm long; branches
50-
70, spreading, with a short, thick proximal part, and a slender distal part. Flowers creamish yellow. Female flowers
1 cm long or more. Fruits
2-
2.5 cm in diameter, greenish white, with brown warty spots.
</p></div>
48 <div type=
"distribution"><p>Endemic to the Andes of SE Ecuador.
</p></div>
49 <div type=
"biology_ecology"><p></p></div>
50 <div type=
"conservation"><p>Endangered (Borchsenius
& Skov
1999). Criteria B1
</p></div>
51 <div type=
"uses"><p></p></div>
52 <div type=
"discussion"><p>In Colombia, this species is replaced by the closely related A. lindeniana (H. Wendl.) H. Wendl., which differs in its smaller female flowers, and red, smooth fruit.
</p></div>
53 <div type=
"materials_examined"><p></p></div>