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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>Syagrus smithii</name>
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<author>(H.E.Moore) Glassman</author>
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<citation>Fieldiana, Bot. 31: 231 (1970)</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>Stem solitary, to 10 m tall, and 5-10 cm in diameter.  Leaves 2.5-3.5 m long, with 80-100 pinnae on each side, these inserted in groups and pointing in somewhat different directions, the central ones 40-80 cm long, and 3.0-3.5 cm wide.  Inflorescence 75-135 cm long, with 10-30 branches, to 30 cm long.  Male flowers ca. 10 mm long.  Female flowers 12-13 mm long.  Fruit yellow, 6-8 cm long and 3-4 cm in diameter, with the seed triangular in cross-section.</p></div>
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<div type="distribution"><p>W Amazon region in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil.  Rather local and not very common in E Ecuador.</p></div>
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<div type="biology_ecology"><p></p></div>
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<div type="conservation"><p></p></div>
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<div type="uses"><p></p></div>
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<div type="discussion"><p>Some populations of this species from SE Colombia are known to have entire leaves also in the reproductive stage. This has not been observed in Ecuador, but the possibility should be kept in mind.</p></div>
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