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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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<nomenclature>
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<name>Asterogyne martiana</name>
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<author>(H.Wendl.) H.Wendl. ex Drude in H.G.A.Engler &amp; K.A.E.Prantl (eds.)</author>
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<citation>Nat. Pflanzenfam. 2(3): 59 (1889)</citation>
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<div type="description"><p>Understorey palm.  Stem solitary, often subterranean, 2-3 cm in diameter below the crown.  Leaf blade 60-100 cm long and 20-30 cm wide, simple or irregularly divided into 1-3 broad, multi-ribbed pinnae on each side; veins forming a sharp angle with the axis.  Inflorescence 50-80 cm long, with 3-10 straight branches borne on the apical few centimeters, the branches 4-6 mm in diameter, with flower pits arranged in distinct longitudinal rows.  Fruits reddish brown when immature, black at full maturity, smooth, elongate, ca. 1 cm long.</p></div>
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<div type="distribution"><p>Central America to N Ecuador, in wet and pluvial tropical forest, west of the Andes, mostly below 500 m elevation.
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Distribution in Ecuador. In Ecuador known only from wet forest in the NW.</p></div>
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