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Astrocaryum aculeatum - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil; 3/2012 © Sonja Germer

Astrocaryum aculeatum - Seedling (note the spines on the fronds) - Click to enlarge!

Seedling (note the spines on the fronds); São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil; 5/2012 © Sonja Germer

Astrocaryum aculeatum - Lower side of fronds - Click to enlarge!

Lower side of fronds; São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil; 3/2012 © Sonja Germer

Astrocaryum aculeatum - Trunk - Click to enlarge!

Trunk; São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil; 3/2012 © Sonja Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 1909
Date of entry: 26.04.2012
Last update: 24.01.2020

Common name

Portuguese: Coqueiro-tucumã

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2635)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2573)

    Class: Liliopsida (389)

      Order: Arecales (28)

        Family: Arecaceae (28)(family description)

          Genus: Astrocaryum (2)

            Epithet: aculeatum G.Mey. (1)

Synonym: Astrocaryum gymnopus Burret

aculeatum => with thorns, prickly and pointed

gymnopus => column-foot

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habit: tree

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