Arecaceae
Bactris

Bactris charnleyae de Nevers, A.J.Hend. & Grayum

First published in Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, 49: 176 (1996)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is E. Panama to NW. Colombia. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Descriptions

Distribution
Biogeografic region: Pacific. Elevation range: 100–350 m a.s.l. Native to Colombia. Colombian departments: Chocó.
Habit
Herb, Subshrub, Caespitose palm.
Conservation
National Red List of Colombia (2021): VU B1ab(iii).
[UPFC]

Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Distribution
Nativa en Colombia; Alt. 100 - 350 m.; Pacífico.
Morphology General Habit
Hierba, subarbusto, palma cespitosa
Conservation
Vulnerable
[CPLC]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Distribution
Panama (San Bias); lowland rain forest at 100-350 m elevation.
Vernacular
Panama: bor (Kuna), uga wawad (Kuna).
General Description
Stems cespitose, 0.5-2 m tall, 6-9 mm diam. Leaves 3-6; leaf spines absent except for apex of pinnae; sheath 5-6 cm long; ocrea to 2 cm long; petiole 7-11 cm long; rachis 11-15 cm long; blade simple, bifid, with 10-14 main veins, these raised adaxially, glabrous, veins with minute spinules abaxially, with spinules 1-7 mm long on margins; blade 25-31 cm long,10-18 cm wide at apex of rachis. Inflorescences interfoliar, projecting from the top of the sheath; peduncle 3-5 cm long, more or less straight, densely spinulose; prophyll 2-3 cm long; peduncular bract 8-8.5 cm long, moderately covered with fine, straight spinules 1.5-2.3 cm long; rachis 2-2.6 cm long; rachillae 5-8, 1.5-3 cm long, at anthesis densely covered with whitish, moniliform trichomes; triads irregularly arranged among paired or solitary flowers; staminate flowers not seen; pistillate flowers 2-3 mm long calyx cupular, ca. 0.5 mm long; corolla tubular, ca. 2 mm long; staminodes minute or absent; fruits 5-8 mm diam., globose, rostrate, yellow or orange, striate; mesocarp starchy; endocarp turbinate, the sterile endocarp pores displaced longitudinally; endocarp fibers numerous, with juice sacs attached; fruiting perianth with obscure calyx and crenate corolla, without staminodial ring.
[PW]

Sources

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