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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:name type="personal">
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<mods:namePart type="family">Borchsenius</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart type="given">F.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:name type="personal">
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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:name>
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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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</mods:originInfo>
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<treatment rank="species">
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<nomenclature>
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<name>Socratea rostrata</name>
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<author>Burret</author>
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<citation>Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 15: 31 (1940)</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>Canopy palm. Stem solitary, to 25 m tall, and 15-30 cm in diameter, supported by many, thick, brown to black stiltroots armed with numerous short, white root spines. Leaves 1.5-3.5 m long; pinnae 15-25 on each side, longitudinally split into 2-10 unequal, elongate segments, these to 130 cm long, often with a golden brown indument below. Inflorescence axis 30-70 cm long; branches 5-15, to 80 cm long. Male flowers ca. 8-17 mm long, with 60-145 stamens. Female flowers ca. 8 mm long. Fruit elongate, 2.5-5 cm long, smooth, conspicuously rostrate.</p></div>
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<div type="distribution"><p>Premontane forest on both sides of the Andes in Colombia and Ecuador. The species usually becomes abundant suddenly in a certain (variable) altitudinal zone; its distribution appears to be linked to frequent occurence of fog.</p></div>
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<div type="uses"><p></p></div>
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<div type="discussion"><p>Plants from the two sides of the Andes and from different elevations have been considered to belong to separate species, based on differences in the structure and size of pinnae and inflorescence branches.</p></div>
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</treatment>
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