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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="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>Aiphanes macroloba</name>
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<author>Burret</author>
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<citation>Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 11: 576 (1932)</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.  Stem adscending or erect, to 3 m long, 2-3 cm in diameter, often with suckers at the basal nodes.  Leaf blade simple, 30-85 x 15-40 cm, with the outer margin jagged, densely covered below with light brown bristles.  Inflorescence unbranched; peduncle 40-100 cm long; spike 10-30 cm long, 4-10 mm in diameter.  Flowers greenish yellow to orange in bud, white at anthesis.  Fruits elliptic, ca. 10 x 7 mm, orange to red.</p></div>
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<div type="distribution"><p>W Colombia and NW Ecuador, in tropical and premontane wet and pluvial forest.</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>The only species in the genus with simple leaves.</p></div>
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