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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="given">H.B.</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>Bactris coloniata</name>
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<author>L.H.Bailey</author>
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<citation>Gentes Herb. 3: 106 (1933)</citation>
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</nomenclature>
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<div type="etymology"><p></p></div>
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<div type="description"><p>Understorey palm.  Stems clustered, 2.5-3 m tall, ca. 5 cm in diameter.  Leaf axis with scattered, long, yellow spines; petiole ca. 1 m long; blade 175-200 cm long; pinnae 50-60 on each side, inserted in groups and spreading in different planes, the central ones 50-75 cm long and 3-6 cm wide, with asymetrical apex ending in a long tail.  Inflorescence 25-50 cm long; branches ca. 25 branches, 10-12 cm long.  Female flowers scattered along the branches.  Fruits red to brownish red, rough, obovoid, flattened at top, strongly rostrate, 2-3 cm in diameter; fruiting perianth with calyx ca. as long as the corolla; staminodial ring absent.</p></div>
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<div type="distribution"><p>Disjunct between Panam�-NW Colombia, W Ecuador, and E Ecuador-NE Peru (Dept. Amazonas).
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Distribution in Ecuador. In Ecuador it is known only from a few localities in tropical dry forest around the Jauneche forest reserve SW of Babahoyo, and from a single collection in the E lowlands.</p></div>
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