Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Palmita, Ubim-Rana
Description
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Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,772 meters (0 to 12,375 feet).[1]
Taxonomy
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- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
)
- Plants
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Vascular Plants
- Class:
Liliopsida
()
- Order:
Arecales
()
- Family:
Noctuoidea
()
- Genus:
Hyospathe
()
- Specific epithet:
elegans
- Mart.
- Botanical name: - Hyospathe elegans Mart.
- Specific epithet:
elegans
- Mart.
- Genus:
Hyospathe
(
- Family:
Noctuoidea
(
- Order:
Arecales
(
- Class:
Liliopsida
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Hyospathe
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 27 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
H. brevipedunculata · H. chiriquensis · H. concinna · H. elata · H. elegans (Ubim-Rana) · H. elegans subsp. costaricensis · H. elegans subsp. sanblasensis · H. elegans subsp. tacarcunensis · H. filiformis · H. frontinensis · H. gracilis · H. lehmannii · H. macrorachis · H. macrorhachis · H. maculata · H. micropetala · H. montana · H. pallida · H. pittieri · H. pubigera · H. schultzeae · H. simplex · H. sodiroi · H. tessmannii · H. ulei · H. weberbaueri · H. wendlandiana
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Further Reading
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- Annales botanices systematicae. Auctore Guilielmo Gerardo Walpers. Lipsiae, Sumtibus F. Hofmeister, 1848-68. LAT url p. 805.
- Botanical Museum leaflets, Harvard University. 15 1951-1952 Cambridge, Mass.: Botanical Museum, Harvard University, 1932- ENG url p. 38.
- Botanisches Zentralblatt; referierendes Organ für das Gesamtgebiet der Botanik. Jena [etc.]G. Fischer [etc.] GER url p. 311.
- Enumeratio plantarum omnium hucusque cognitarum, secundum familias naturales disposita, adjectis characteribus, differentiis et synonymis, auctore Carolo Sigismundo Kunth. Stutgardiae, Sumtibus J. G. Cottae, 1833-1850. LAT url p. 615.
- Flora of Peru / by J. Francis Macbride. Chicago, [Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, [1960] ENG url p. 375, p. 376.
- Journal d'horticulture pratique de la Belgique, ou Guide des amateurs et jardiniers. Bruxelles: F. Parent, 1848-1861. FRE url p. 12.
- Just's botanischer jahresbericht. Systematisch geordnetes repertorium der botanischen literatur aller länder. Berlin, Gebr. Borntraeger, 1874-98; GER url p. 706, p. 887.
- Manual de plantas de Costa Rica /B.E. Hammel [et al.] editores; Silvia Troyo, ilustraciones. 97 2004 St. Louis, Mo.: Missouri Botanical Garden, 2003- SPA url p. 183, p. 188.
Notes
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Contributors
- Bisby FA, Roskov YR, Orrell TM, Nicolson D, Paglinawan LE, Bailly N, Kirk PM, Bourgoin T, van Hertum J, eds (2008). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2008 Annual Checklist Taxonomic Classification. CD-ROM; Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 04, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 12 providers.
- World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 04, 2007:
- Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program
- Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Virtual Herbarium Darwin Core format
- Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
- Herbier de la Guyane, Herbier de la Guyane
- Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
- , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
- The New York Botanical Garden, Vascular Plant Type Specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3482734
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-101301
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15051237
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:667463-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 708171
Footnotes
- Mean = 457.360 meters (1,500.525 feet), Standard Deviation = 635.940 based on 439 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
