A revision of Geonoma (Arecaceae)
Author
Henderson, Andrew
text
Phytotaxa
2011
2011-02-18
17
1
271
journal article
24911
10.11646/phytotaxa.17.1
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1179-3163
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14b.
Geonoma cuneata
subsp.
guanacastensis
Henderson
,
subsp. nov.
(Appendix IV, Plate 16)
A subspeciebus aliis
petiolis in sicco brunneo–aurantiacis differt.
Type:
COSTA RICA
.
Guanacaste
/
Alajuela
: slopes of Miravalles, above Bijagua, ca.
1500 m
,
November 1982
,
L. Gómez et al. 19053
(
holotype
NY!, isotype MO!).
Leaves
undivided; petioles drying orange-brown; veins not raised or slightly raised and triangular in crosssection adaxially; rachis 27.6(17.7–31.5) cm long; pinnae 1 per side of rachis.
Inflorescences
staminate flowers deciduous after anthesis; non-fertilized pistillate flowers deciduous after anthesis.
Distribution and habitat:—
From
10°35’N–
10°59’N
and 84°55’–
85°27’W
in
Costa Rica
(Cordilleras de
Guanacaste
and Tilarán) at 814(470–1500) m elevation in lowland or montane rainforest (
Fig. 13
).