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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: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:namePart type="given">H.</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 setiflora</name>
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<author>Burret</author>
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<citation>Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 14: 328 (1939)</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, to 5 m long, 2.5-5 cm in diameter.  Leaves 1.5-2.5 m long; pinnae 25-35 on each side, regularly inserted in one plane; central pinnae 45-70 cm long, 3-4.5 cm wide; leaf axis covered with brown or black bristles and spines.  Inflorescence 25-50 cm long, densely covered with dark brown bristles on most parts; branches 10-25, to 15 cm long.  Female flowers scattered along the branches.  Fruit black, flattened at top, rostrate, 2-2.5 cm in diameter; fruiting perianth with a short calyx and a slightly longer, densely bristly corolla; staminodial ring absent.</p></div>
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<div type="distribution"><p>Endemic to a small area E of the Andes in Ecuador, on terra firme.</p></div>
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<div type="biology_ecology"><p></p></div>
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<div type="conservation"><p>Endangered (Borchsenius &amp; Skov 1999). Criteria B1, B2a</p></div>
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<div type="uses"><p></p></div>
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<div type="discussion"><p>Plants appearing to be hybrids between this species and Bactris corossilla are sometimes found (Pastaza: Bergmann #97854; #97856).</p></div>
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