Monographs Details:
Authority:
Maguire, Bassett. 1972. The botany of the Guayana Highland--part IX. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 23: 1-832.
Maguire, Bassett. 1972. The botany of the Guayana Highland--part IX. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 23: 1-832.
Family:
Arecaceae
Arecaceae
Description:
Distribution and Ecology - Distribution. Widespread in the northern part of South America; in the Guianas common but usually not abundant in the understory of rain forests on well-drained places at lower elevations, up to about 600 m. GUYANA. Upper Mazaruni River Basin, Kako R., ca 550 m, Tillett & Tillett 45508 (NY).
Distribution and Ecology - Distribution. Widespread in the northern part of South America; in the Guianas common but usually not abundant in the understory of rain forests on well-drained places at lower elevations, up to about 600 m. GUYANA. Upper Mazaruni River Basin, Kako R., ca 550 m, Tillett & Tillett 45508 (NY).
Discussion:
Astrocaryum humile Wallace, Palm Trees Amazon 11S, pl. 45. 1853.
Type. None.
Bactris humilis is characterized by its acaulescence, leaves with clustered pinnae, inflorescences with early decaying, densely brownish-black setose bracts and numerous slender rachillas in the basal part covered with flowertriads of one pistillate and two staminate flowers, the fruits orange-red at maturity turning dark green when overripe and beset with black setae. The species is essentially a species of the hot lowlands only occasionally reaching middle elevations.
Distribution:
South America| Guyana South America| French Guiana South America|
South America| Guyana South America| French Guiana South America|