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Butia pubispatha

Family
Arecaceae (Palm family)
Grows as
Palm
Native range
Brazil (E. Paraná)
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Butia pubispatha is a very small and extremely rare species of Butia palm with an underground trunk; endemic to the east of the state of Paraná in southeastern Brazil.

How to grow it

Seeds have been offered for sale. It has been grown by at least two collectors as of 2014.

Where it grows

This plant is extremely rare. As of 2017 it has not been found anywhere except the type locality in the east of the state of Paraná in southeastern Brazil. It was discovered and collected in 2008 along a highway in the municipality of Jaguariaíva.

Other Butia plants

Butia archeri · 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 purpurascens

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Butia pubispatha 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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