Ceroxylon vogelianum
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| Ceroxylon vogelianum cultivated at Bogota Botanical Garden. | |
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| Species: | C. vogelianum
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Ceroxylon vogelianum, is a palm native to the Andes from Venezuela south to Peru in humid montane forest, at an elevation of 1900 – 2900 meters.[2][3]
Description
Ceroxylon vogelianum is a small to medium-sized palm with a stem of 3–17 meters tall and 12–25 cm in diameter.[3] The crown can have 6 to 18 leaves, most of them almost upright or horizontally arranged.[3] Leaf blades are made of 46–129 leaflets in a rhachis of 38–210 cm long; petiole 15–75 cm long.[3] Male inflorescences around 160 cm long, with about 40 branches; male flowers with 6 stamens, with filaments up to 1.5 mm long and anthers 1.6–2.5 mm long.[3] Female inflorescences around. 360 cm long with 31–53 branches; female flowers with 6 staminodes and a green pistil of 2–3 mm in diameter.[3] Fruits globose, orange-red when ripe, 1.6–2.0 cm diam. with seeds 1.1–1.6 cm diam.[3]
Distribution and Habitat
This species is present in the Andes range from Venezuela to Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.[2][3] It occurs in humid montane forest, between 1900–2900 meters of elevation, with sparse individuals.[3]
References
- ^ "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species - Ceroxylon vogelianum (Engel) H. Wendl".
- ^ a b "Tropicos | Name - Ceroxylon vogelianum (Engel) H. Wendl". www.tropicos.org. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Sanin, Maria Jose; Galeano, Gloria (2011). "A revision of the Andean wax palms, Ceroxylon (Arecaceae)" (PDF). Phytotaxa (34): 1–64. Retrieved 18 January 2016.