Socratea
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| Genus: | Socratea
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Metasocratea Dugand | |
Socratea is a genus of five species of palms found in tropical Central America and South America.[1][2][3]
It is commonly believed that Socratea can move away from where it germinated by growing roots on one side and abandoning them on the other. Attempts to detect this behavior have failed.[4]
- Socratea exorrhiza (Mart.) H.Wendl. - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, northern and western Brazil (States of Amazonas, Amapá, Mato Grosso, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima)
- Socratea hecatonandra (Dugand) R.Bernal - Colombia, Ecuador
- Socratea montana R.Bernal & A.J.Hend. - Colombia, Ecuador
- Socratea rostrata Burret - Peru, Colombia, Ecuador
- Socratea salazarii H.E.Moore - Peru, Bolivia, western Brazil (State of Acre)
References
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- ^ Henderson, A. 1990. Arecaceae–Part I. Introduction and the Iriarteinae. Flora Neotropica, Monograph 53: 1–100
- ^ Can 'Walking Palm Trees' Really Walk? At: Live Science
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