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<mods:title>Manual to the palms of Ecuador</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart type="family">Borchsenius</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart type="family">Pedersen</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart type="family">Balslev</mods:namePart>
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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 ensiformis</name>
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<author>(Ruiz &amp; Pav.) H.E.Moore</author>
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<citation>Gentes Herb. 9: 286 (1963)</citation>
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<div type="description"><p>Understorey or subcanopy palm.  Stem solitary, to 10 m tall, and 8-12 cm in diameter, distally with some persisting, black leaf sheaths.  Leaves with petiole 50-100 cm long; blade 150-250 cm long; pinnae 40-60 on each side, the central ones 50-80 cm long and 3-5 cm wide, gradually tapering at apex into a short point.  Inflorescence with peduncle 30-100 cm long; rachis 30-80 cm long; branches 20-60, 45-75 cm long, and 2-3 mm in diameter.  Fruits black, globose, 7-10 mm in diameter.  Seedling leaves bifid.</p></div>
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<div type="distribution"><p>Costa Rica to Ecuador W of the Andes, and in S Ecuador to Peru E of the Andes, usually at elevations below 1500 m.</p></div>
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