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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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<nomenclature>
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<name>Socratea exorrhiza</name>
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<author>(Mart.) H.Wendl.</author>
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<citation>Bonplandia (Hannover) 8: 103 (1860)</citation>
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<div type="description"><p>Canopy palm.  Stem solitary, 10-20 m tall and 10-20 cm in diameter, supported at base by a few, thick, brown stilt roots with numerous short, white root spines.  Leaves 1.5-3.5 m long; pinnae 15-25 on each side, longitudinally split into 2-18 unequal segments, these 40-90 cm long.  Inflorescence axis 30-60 cm long; branches 5-20, to 40 cm long.  Male flowers ca. 1 cm long, with 17-65 stamens.  Female flowers ca. 5 mm long.  Fruit elongate, 1.5-2.5 cm long, smooth.</p></div>
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<div type="distribution"><p>Widespread in Central America and South America.  In Ecuador it occurs in moist forest on both sides of the Andes, and is often quite common.</p></div>
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