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Butia archeri is a small species of Butia palm with a short trunk native to the states of Goiás, Brasília, Minas Gerais and São Paulo in Brazil.
It has been given the common name dwarf jelly palm in English. Local common names which have been recorded for this species are coqueirinho-do-campo, butiazinho and vassourinha.
Seeds germinate with difficulty (48% abortion rate according to a 2009 study). It grows quite slowly. It tolerates transplantation very well, even when an adult. It is advised to plant the palms in full sunlight. It is said to take −5 °C, but should be protected at 0 °C in the Netherlands. The USDA hardiness zone is 9a, according to a nursery.
By 2011 it was grown by Harri Lorenzi, a senior Brazilian botanist specialised in palms, in his Plantarum institute.
It is endemic to Brazil, being native to the states of Goiás, Brasília, Minas Gerais and São Paulo in Brazil. The population is largely split in three large populations from east to west in regions of higher elevations, split by regions of lower elevations in the major river valleys. The spatial distribution of individuals is usually as small groups clustered together; one rarely encounters lone individuals.
Butia arenicola · Butia campicola · South American jelly palm · Butia catarinensis · Woolly butia palm · Butia lallemantii · Butia matogrossensis · Butia microspadix · South American Jelly Palm · Dwarf Yatay Palm · Butia pubispatha · Butia purpurascens
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Butia archeri 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.
