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Bactris pliniana

Bactris pliniana
Photo: guillaume_delaitre, CC BY 4.0
Family
Arecaceae (Palm family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub, Palm
Native range
Guianas to N. Brazil
Climate
wet tropical

About

Bactris pliniana is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It is a shrub or palm tree with spiny stems, six to twelve leaves, and orange fruits. The species is native to South America, and was described in 1994.

Where it grows

Bactris pliniana is native to the wet tropical biome of northern Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Amapá and Pará), French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Peru (Department of Loreto).

Other Bactris plants

Bactris acanthocarpa · Bactris acanthocarpoides · Bactris ana-juliae · Bactris aubletiana · Bactris bahiensis · Bactris balanophora · Bactris barronis · Bactris bidentula · Bactris bifida · Bactris brongniartii · Bactris campestris · Caryota Leaf Peach Palm

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bactris pliniana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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