Mauritiella armata

Mauritiella armata
Mauritiella armata
Systematics
Monocots Commelinids Order : Palm- like arecales Family : Palm family (Arecaceae) Genre : Mauritiella Type : Mauritiella armata
Scientific name
Mauritiella armata
( Mart. ) Burret

Mauritiella armata is a South American palm tree .

features

Mauritiella armata is a multi-stemmed palm with 1 to 7 stems per adult plant. The trunks are 3 to 18, rarely only 2.5 m high. The trunk diameter is 7.5 to 12 cm, rarely up to 20 cm. Dead leaves fall off with a clean scar.

The sheets are folded 86 to 104 times, rarely only 54 times. The petiole is wax-free. The leaf base is peltate and funnel-shaped. The costa is 3 to 20, rarely only 1 cm long. The middle leaf segments are 70 to 133 cm long (rarely only 60) and 1 to 2 cm wide. The edge of the leaf segments is sometimes thorny. The leaf segments are straight.

In the inflorescence there are 12 to 32 female flower branches, these are 16 to 50 cm long. There are 26 to 63 flower-bearing branches (rachillae) per branch.

The fruit measures 2.5 to 3.5 × 2 to 3 cm. It has 21 to 32 rows of scales.

Distribution and locations

Mauritiella armata is the most common species of the genus. It occurs almost all over the Amazon , as well as in the neighboring highlands in northern South America. It grows along rivers, in the open savannah, in rainforests and in clearings. It occurs mainly in low altitudes, but occurs in Guyana in mountain rainforests at altitudes up to 1350 m.

Bernal and Galeano indicate northern and central South America as the distribution area: Venezuela, Colombia and Bolivia. As locations they name poorly drained soils, sometimes on white sand.

use

The pulp is eaten, similar to that of Mauritia flexuosa .

Systematics

The species was first described by Martius in 1825 as Mauritia armata and placed in 1935 by Burret in the Mauritiella which he had newly built . In 2010, the species Mauritiella pumila , which had long been synonymous, was separated as an independent species.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Rodrigo Bernal, Gloria Galeano: Notes on Mauritiella, Manicaria and Leopoldinia . Palms, Volume 54, 2010, pp. 119-132.
2. ^ Robert Lee Riffle, Paul Craft: An Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms . Timber Press, Portland 2007, ISBN 978-0-88192-558-6 , p. 386.
3. ^ Francis Kahn: Palms as key swamp forest resources in Amazonia . Forest Ecology and Management, 1991, Volume 38, pp. 133-144, here p. 138.
4. ↑ Mauritiella armata in the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families , accessed October 3, 2013.
5. ↑ Mauritiella pumila in the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families , accessed October 3, 2013.

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