Mauritiella armata (Mart.) Burret

Species

Angiosperms > Arecales > Arecaceae > Mauritiella

Characteristics

A palm. It can be 20 m tall. It grows in clumps. The fronds are fan shaped. They are silver grey underneath. The trunk is slender and short and has spines. The fruit occur as many in a bunch. The fruit are scaly and oval. They are 3 cm long by 2 cm wide. They are pale orange. The skin is thin and the pulp is yellow. Their is one red-brown seed.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
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Mature height (meter) 20.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Quite widely distributed, found in rainforests from the lowlands of the Amazon River, up to the cool Guyana Highlands at 1,400 metres. Lowland forest on non-flooded sites, also on poorly drained sandy soils, river margins to 1,500 metres.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows up to 900 m above sea level. It grows in seasonally flooded savannahs. In Townsville palmetum.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The fruit are softened in water then eaten. They are also used for fruit.
Uses animal food environmental use food fuel material wood
Edible fruits seeds
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
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Images

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Distribution

Mauritiella armata world distribution map, present in Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:668180-1
WFO ID wfo-0000238101
COL ID 3YG2Q
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 731674
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Lepidococcus armatus Lepidococcus duckei Lepidococcus huebneri Lepidococcus intermedius Mauritia huebneri Mauritia nannostachys Mauritia peruviana Mauritiella armata Mauritiella campylostachys Mauritiella duckei Mauritiella huebneri Mauritiella martiana Mauritiella nannostachys Lepidococcus martianus Lepidococcus peruvianus Mauritia armata Mauritia campylostachys Mauritia duckei Mauritia intermedia Mauritia macrospadix Mauritia martiana Mauritiella intermedia Mauritiella macrospadix Mauritiella peruviana Oenocarpus dealbatus