A revision of Geonoma (Arecaceae)
Author
Henderson, Andrew
text
Phytotaxa
2011
2011-02-18
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journal article
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51f.
Geonoma pohliana
subsp.
rodriguesii
Henderson
,
subsp. nov.
(Appendix IV, Plate 55)
A subspeciebus aliis
pinnis in quoque latere 4(2–7) atque rachillis 2(1–4) glabris differt.
Type:
BRAZIL
.
Rio de Janeiro
: Praia de João Gago, on Sepetiba Bay, on road to Mangaratiba,
22°56’S
43°59’W
,
19 November 1966
,
G. Gottsberger 14–
191166
(
holotype
NY!).
Leaves
pinnae 4(2–7) per side of rachis.
Inflorescences
rachillae 2(1–4), 5.4(4.0–7.1) mm in diameter, not hairy, not filiform and not or scarcely narrowed between the flower pits; proximal and distal lips drying the same color as the rachillae; triads mostly spirally arranged.
Distribution and habitat:—
From 18°01’–
23°13’S
and 39°48’–
44°57’W
in the Atlantic Coastal Forest of
Brazil
in
Espírito Santo
,
Minas Gerais
,
Rio de Janeiro
, and
São Paulo
at 251(50–650) m elevation in lowland rainforest (
Fig. 34
).