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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>

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

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<mods:name type="personal">

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

<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>

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

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<nomenclature>

<name>Aiphanes verrucosa</name>

<author>Borchs. &amp; Balslev</author>

<citation>Nordic J. Bot. 9: 389 (1989 publ. 1990)</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>Understorey palm.  Stems clustered, to 5 m tall, 4-5 cm in diameter.  Leaves distichous.  Leaf blade 100-130 cm long; pinnae 50-70 on each side, narrow, lanceolate, inserted in groups and pointing in all directions, the central ones 35-40 cm long and 1.5-2.5 cm wide, only slightly jagged at apex.  Inflorescence 80-120 cm long; branches 50-70, spreading, with a short, thick proximal part, and a slender distal part.  Flowers creamish yellow.  Female flowers 1 cm long or more.  Fruits 2-2.5 cm in diameter, greenish white, with brown warty spots.</p></div>

<div type="distribution"><p>Endemic to the Andes of SE Ecuador.</p></div>

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

<div type="conservation"><p>Endangered (Borchsenius &amp; Skov 1999). Criteria B1</p></div>

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

<div type="discussion"><p>In Colombia, this species is replaced by the closely related A. lindeniana (H. Wendl.) H. Wendl., which differs in its smaller female flowers, and red, smooth fruit.</p></div>

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