Acoelorraphe wrightii (Griseb. & H.Wendl.) H.Wendl. ex Becc.

PLANTS OF HONDURAS
Departamento de Colón
PALMAE
Paurotis wrightii(Griseb & Wendl)Button ex
Button Schafer
palm to 10 ft; flowers green, fragrant with
sweet scent; fruits young, green, ripen
orange; leaves gray green, fan shaped with
spines on petioles; common tree in mangroves,
savannah thickets; West N & E sites.
on
botanical.
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1.8 mi. »trip on the north bank of rio Guaimoreto between old bridge and opening of Laguna Guai-
moreto 4.5 mi. NE of Trujillo on old road to Castilla, lat. 15* 57“ 30'' N; Long. 85* 54' 30" W.
NEW YORK B0TAN|CAL GARDEN
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JANICE SAUNDERS
DATE:
25 June 1980
Capuchin feeding study by John S. Buckley under auspices of Dept, of Anthropology, Univ. of Texas
at Austin and Instituto Hondureno de Antropología e Historia.
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