Nutsedge palm (Astrocaryum alatum)
Description
It has solitary stems with trunks reaching 4-6 m high and 20-30 cm in diameter, generally unarmed except for the spiny and persistent bases of the leaves internodes densely armed with large, black stingers up to 25 cm long The leaves 9-15, 6-7 m long, widely patent; you pin about 100 on each side, more or less arranged regularly and patents on the same plane, terminal segments confluent to bifid. Inflorescences with peduncle 150 cm long, white-lepidote, bractpeduncular 200 cm long; staminate flowers 5-6 mm long; pistillate flowers of 15 mm long, urceolated corolla. Fruits subglobose to ovoid, 6-7 cm long and 4-5 cm in diameter, brownish-yellow, laxly covered with black spines.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Arecales
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Family: Arecaceae
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Genus: Astrocaryum
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