Prestoea Hook.F.

Prestoea (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Arecales > Arecaceae

Characteristics

Small trees of the Euterpe kind but without crownshaft above spadices or flower-clusters, pistillate spadices with short ascending or divaricate rather than long slender and drooping rachillae and that are attached to rachis by a swollen or bulboid base, petals of pistillate flowers convolute-imbricate rather than valvate: fruit gibbous or lop-sided; seed lacking a fibrous covering and with a marbled or tessellate exterior; albumen strongly ruminate.
Life form perennial
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Images

Prestoea unspecified picture

Distribution

Prestoea world distribution map, present in Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Guyana, Haiti, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331268-2
WFO ID wfo-4000031116
COL ID 8W2P2
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 627843
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Synonyms

Prestoea Euterpe Acrista Martinezia Oreodoxa

Lower taxons

Prestoea acuminata Prestoea carderi Prestoea decurrens Prestoea ensiformis Prestoea longepetiolata Prestoea schultzeana Prestoea simplicifolia Prestoea tenuiramosa Prestoea pubens Prestoea pubigera