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Oenocarpus

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Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassLiliopsida
  4. OrderArecales
  5. FamilyArecaceae
Native toBolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panamá, Peru, Suriname
Observations recorded69,642

Common Name: patana palm

via GBIF · Kew POWO

Museum specimens

Specimen records
134
With media
55
Family
Arecaceae
Collections
NO, US, NY, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA), CENARGEN, MO
Recorded in
Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Guyana, Panama, Brasil

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Encyclopedic overview

2 sections
Contents
  • List of species
  • References

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Oenocarpus is a genus of pinnate-leaved palms (Arecaceae) native to Trinidad, southern Central and tropical South America. With nine species and one natural hybrid, the genus is distributed from Costa Rica and Trinidad in the north to Brazil and Bolivia in the south.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oenocarpus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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