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Socratea
Sign in to saveSocratea is a genus of five species of palms found in tropical Central America and South America.
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Vinony's link graph records 222 inbound references to Socratea, and connects out to Chambeyronia, Arecaceae and Phoenix.
Vinony files it under Arecaceae genera, Flora of the Neotropical realm and Iriarteeae.
Vinony links it to 10 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
walking palm
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderArecales
- FamilyArecaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 67
- With media
- 51
- Family
- Arecaceae
- Collections
- US, A, MO
- Recorded in
- Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador
Wikidata facts
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- Socratea
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- Category:Socratea
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- 高跷椰属
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- Socratea
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Encyclopedic overview
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Socratea is a genus of five species of palms found in tropical Central America and South America.
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. What is known for a fact is that these roots can, in the case of S. montana, grow to a length of 16.5 feet (five meters) and up to three inches (eight cm) in diameter.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Socratea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.