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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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</mods:name>
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<mods:originInfo>
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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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<treatment rank="species">
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<nomenclature>
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<name>Prestoea decurrens</name>
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<author>(H.Wendl. ex Burret) H.E.Moore</author>
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<citation>Gentes Herb. 9: 286 (1963)</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, 1.5-5 m tall, and 4-8 cm in diameter, often yellowish green. Leaf sheathes partly closed, green, often persisting; petiole 30-80 cm long; blade 120-220 cm long; pinnae 50-80 on each side, the central ones 30-60 cm long and 3-5 cm wide, abrubtly narrowed at the tip into a 3-5 cm long filamentous point. Inflorescence with peduncle 8-40 cm long; rachis 20-50 cm long; branches 10-70, 25-50 cm long, 2-5 mm in diameter, with numerous simple, white hairs, especially when young. Fruits black, globose, 7-11 mm in diameter. Seedling leaves pinnately divided.</p></div>
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<div type="distribution"><p>Central America to Ecuador W of the Andes, in moist to wet forest below 1000 m elevation.</p></div>
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<div type="conservation"><p></p></div>
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<div type="uses"><p></p></div>
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<div type="discussion"><p>Plants from central and S Ecuador are smaller than typical for the species, and strongly resemble P. schultzeana</p></div>
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<div type="materials_examined"><p></p></div>
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</treatment>
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