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<mods:titleInfo>
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<mods:title>Manual to the palms of Ecuador</mods:title>
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<mods:name type="personal">
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<mods:namePart type="family">Borchsenius</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart type="given">F.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:name type="personal">
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<mods:namePart type="family">Pedersen</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart type="given">H.B.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart type="family">Balslev</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart type="given">H.</mods:namePart>
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</role>
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</mods:name>
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<mods:publisher>AAU Reports 37. Department of Systematic Botany, University of Aarhus, Denmark in collaboration with Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica del Ecuador</mods:publisher>
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<mods:dateIssued>1998</mods:dateIssued>
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<nomenclature>
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<name>Hyospathe elegans</name>
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<author>Mart.</author>
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<citation>Hist. Nat. Palm. 2: 1 (1823)</citation>
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</nomenclature>
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<div type="introduction"><p></p></div>
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<div type="etymology"><p></p></div>
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<div type="vernacular"><p></p></div>
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<div type="description"><p>Understorey palm. Stems clustered, erect or sometimes decumbent with age, to 5 m tall and 2-3 cm in diameter, smooth, with distant leaf scars. Leaves 50-200 cm long, simple or pinnately divided, with up to 25 unequal to nearly equal pinnae on each side; leaf sheath closed, green; petiole channeled above. Inflorescence borne below the leaves, erect, pink at anthesis, red in fruit, branched to one order; peduncle 2-15 cm long; rachis 1-16 cm long; branches to 50, as long as or longer than the rachis. Fruits black, oblong, ca. 10-15 mm long and 3-7 mm in diameter.</p></div>
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<div type="distribution"><p>Widespread in Central and South America, southward to Bolivia, in the understorey of closed-canopy forest.</p></div>
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<div type="uses"><p></p></div>
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<div type="discussion"><p>A variable species that includes several morphological types, differing in size, habit, stem development, and degree of dissection of the leaves. However, intermediate forms exist, linking these together (Skov & Balslev, 1989).</p></div>
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</treatment>
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