Chamaedorea pinnatifrons

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Genus Chamaedorea

Plants small, usually low-growing, unarmed . Stems clustered [solitary], erect [creeping , lianoid], slender, unarmed. Leaves: sheaths tubular , unarmed, forming crownshaft ; blade pinnate [undivided], with leaf segments regularly spaced along unarmed rachis, in 1 plane [many planes]; plication reduplicate ; segments linear-lanceolate, apical pair of segments sometimes wider than others. Inflorescences axillary below crown of leaves, ascending , with 1 order of branching [spicate or 2 orders]; prophyll small; peduncular bracts 5--6, tubular, papery ; rachillae green at anthesis , turning orange in fruit. Flowers unisexual , sessile, staminate and pistillate flowers on different plants. Staminate flowers borne singly, partially sunken into fleshy rachillae; sepals 3, briefly connate at base [distinct ]; petals 3, ovate , basally briefly connate [connate by tips ]; stamens 6, distinct; anthers dorsifixed ; pistillode minute. Pistillate flowers borne singly, slightly sunken into fleshy rachillae; sepals 3, free ; petals 3, free, ovate; staminodes 6, minute; pistil 1, 3-loculate; ovules 1 per locule; style indistinct; stigmas minute. Fruits drupes, globose ; stigmatic scar basal, exocarp black, smooth ; mesocarp thin; endocarp bony. Seeds globose; endosperm homogeneous ; embryo subapical ; eophyll 2-cleft [pinnate], segments linear . nx = 13.

Species 77--100 or more: introduced ; Fla., Mexico, Central America, and n South America.

Chamaedorea species are understory palms in Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. Many species are cultivated in North America both as houseplants and, in warm areas, as garden plants.[1]

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,936 meters (0 to 16,194 feet).[2]

Biology

Growth

Culture: Space 18-24" apart.

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Light Shade.

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 9b, 10a, 10b, 11. (map)

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 11-Nov-2003

An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Chamaedorea

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 46 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

C. adscendens (Velvet Palm) · C. allenii (Palm) · C. amabilis (Palm) · C. arenbergiana (Palm) · C. benziei (Palm) · C. brachypoda (Palm) · C. cataractarum (Cascade Palm) · C. cataractum (Cat Palm) · C. costaricana (Bamboo Palm) · C. deneversiana (Palm) · C. elatior (Climbing Chamaedorea) · C. elegans (Neanthe Bella Palm) · C. ernesti-angusti (Guaya Palm) · C. ernesti-augusti (Ernest Augusts Palm) · C. fragrans (Palm) · C. geonomiformis (Necklace Palm) · C. glaucifolia (Glaucous Parlour Palm) · C. hooperiana (Maya Palm) · C. humilis (Dwarf Parlour Palm) · C. klotzschiana (Palm) · C. metallica (Metalica) · C. microspadix (Hardy Bamboo Palm) · C. nationsiana (Corn Palm) · C. nubium (Palm) · C. oblongata (Palm) · C. oreophila (Palm) · C. pacaya (Pacaya Palm) · C. pedunculata (Palm) · C. pinnatifrons (Molinillo) · C. plumosa (Palm) · C. pochutlensis (Palm) · C. pochutlensis x graminifolia 'Irving Cantor' (Chamaedorea Palm) · C. radicalis (Radicalis Palm) · C. rhizomatosa (Palm) · C. robertii (Palm) · C. rossteniorum (Palm) · C. sartorii (Palm) · C. schiedeana (Palm) · C. seifrizii (Bamboo Palm) · C. stolonifera (Stolon Palm) · C. tenella (Necklace Palm) · C. tepejilote (Pacaya Palm) · C. tuerckheimii (Potato Chip Palm) · C. verecunda (Palm) · C. whitelockiana (Palm) · C. woodsoniana (Palm)

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Further Reading

• Index of American palms, by B.E. Dahlgren. Fossil palms, by A.C. Noé. Chicago, IL: Field Museum of Natural History1936-59. url plate 142, plate 143, p. 360.
• Publication. Field Museum of Natural History. 14 1959 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1912-1947. url plate 142, p. 360, p. 76.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 17, 2008:

• Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program
• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad, Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México
• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
• , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• SysTax, Herbarium Universitat Ulm
• SysTax, SysTax

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3482515
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-37622
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:665826-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 665826-1
• MoBot NameID: 2401380
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 708152

Footnotes

1. "Chamaedorea". in Flora of North America Vol. 22 Page 113. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 928.230 meters (3,045.374 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,081.800 based on 848 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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