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<mods:titleInfo>

<mods:title>Manual to the palms of Ecuador</mods:title>

</mods:titleInfo>

<mods:name type="personal">

<mods:namePart type="family">Borchsenius</mods:namePart>

<mods:namePart type="given">F.</mods:namePart>

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</role>

</mods:name>

<mods:name type="personal">

<mods:namePart type="family">Pedersen</mods:namePart>

<mods:namePart type="given">H.B.</mods:namePart>

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<roleTerm type="text">author</roleTerm>

<roleTerm type="code">aut</roleTerm>

</role>

</mods:name>

<mods:name type="personal">

<mods:namePart type="family">Balslev</mods:namePart>

<mods:namePart type="given">H.</mods:namePart>

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<roleTerm type="text">author</roleTerm>

<roleTerm type="code">aut</roleTerm>

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<mods:originInfo>

<mods:publisher>AAU Reports 37. Department of Systematic Botany, University of Aarhus, Denmark in collaboration with Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica del Ecuador</mods:publisher>

<mods:dateIssued>1998</mods:dateIssued>

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<treatment rank="species">

<nomenclature>

<name>Ceroxylon amazonicum</name>

<author>Galeano</author>

<citation>Caldasia 17: 398 (1995)</citation>

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<div type="introduction"><p></p></div>

<div type="etymology"><p></p></div>

<div type="vernacular"><p></p></div>

<div type="description"><p>Canopy palm.  Stem solitary, to 20 m tall, 15-25 cm in diameter, grey to white.  Leaves to 5 m long; pinnae ca. 100 on each side, regularly inserted in one plane, horizontal, with the terminal part descending, the central ones 50-75 cm long and 4-5 cm wide, below with a thick, white to light brown, waxy indument.  Inflorescences arching to pendulous, to 3 m long, branched 3 times.  Fruits ca. 2 cm in diameter, smooth, red at maturity.</p></div>

<div type="distribution"><p>Endemic to SE Ecuador, where it occurs in premontane moist forest.  It is the only species of Ceroxylon that occurs at so low elevations.</p></div>

<div type="biology_ecology"><p></p></div>

<div type="conservation"><p>Vulnerable (Borchsenius &amp; Skov 1999). Criteria A1c, B2c</p></div>

<div type="uses"><p></p></div>

<div type="discussion"><p></p></div>

<div type="materials_examined"><p></p></div>

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