Overview
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Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Barrigona Palm, Copa Palm, Stilt Palm
Description
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Physical Description
Habit: Evergreen .
Size/Age/Growth
Size: over 40' tall.
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,028 meters (0 to 9,934 feet).[1]
Biology
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Growth
Culture: Space 10-12' apart.
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade.
Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 11. (map)
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- (Auct.) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
()
- Auct.
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Arecidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Arecanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Arecales
()
- Bromhead, 1840
- Family:
Palmae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Subfamily:
Arecoideae
()
- Tribe:
Iriarteeae
()
- Genus:
Iriartea
()
- Ruiz & Pavón, 1794
- Specific epithet:
deltoidea
- Ruiz & Pav.
- Botanical name: - Iriartea deltoidea Ruiz & Pav.
- Specific epithet:
deltoidea
- Ruiz & Pav.
- Genus:
Iriartea
(
- Tribe:
Iriarteeae
(
- Subfamily:
Arecoideae
(
- Family:
Palmae
(
- Order:
Arecales
(
- Superorder:
Arecanae
(
- Subclass:
Arecidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Ceroxylon deltoideum (Ruiz and Pav.) Kunth
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 11-Nov-2003
An accepted name in the RHS
Horticultural Database.
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Iriartea
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Further Reading
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- A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world: including the structural and economic classifications of fibers / by Charles Richards Dodge. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1897. url p. 202.
- Bulletin / Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington: G.P.O., 1901-1971. url p. 128, p. 580.
- Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 16 1912-1916 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 226.
- Flora of Peru / by J. Francis Macbride. 13 1960 Chicago, [Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, [1960] url p. 356, p. 358.
- Forest culture and eucalyptus trees, San FranciscoCubery1876 url p. 438.
- Index of American palms, by B.E. Dahlgren. Fossil palms, by A.C. Noé. 14 1936 Chicago, IL: Field Museum of Natural History1936-59. url p. 152, plate 310, plate 311, p. 345, p. 382, p. 419, p. 86.
- Journal of ethnobiology. 20 2000 Flagstaff, Ariz.: Center for Western Studies, 1981- url p. 10, p. 15, p. 15, p. 161, p. 162, p. 164, p. 165, p. 166, p. 167, p. 170, p. 230, p. 233, p. 305, figure 6.
- Journal of the proceedings of the Linnean Society. London: The Society, 1857-1864. url p. 193.
- Nicholson, G. The illustrated dictionary of gardening: a practical and scientific encyclopædia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists /edited by George Nicholson; assisted by J.W.H. Trail. .. and J. Garrett. .. 9 1884 London: L.U. Gill, [1884]-88. url p. 449.
- Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Washington, etc.: Entomological Society of Washington url p. 891.
- Publication. Field Museum of Natural History. 14 1936 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1912-1947. url p. 152, plate 310, plate 311, p. 327, p. 345, p. 382, p. 393, p. 419, p. 86.
- Select extra-tropical plants readily eligible for industrial culture or naturalisation with indications of their native countries and some of their uses / by Baron Ferd. von Mueller. Melbourne: R. S. Brain, govt. printer, 1895. url p. 577, p. 628, p. 519, p. 568.
- Select extra-tropical plants, readily eligible for industrial culture or naturalisation, with indications of their native countries and some of their uses. By Baron Ferd. von Mueller. .. Sydney, T. Richards, government printer, 1881. url p. 356, p. 392.
- The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: the Americas IUCN url p. 220.
- The Garden: an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. London: [s.n., url p. 84.
- The Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany. 11 1871 London: the Society: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green: ||Williams and Norgate, 1865-1968. url p. 133, p. 74.
- The Palms of the New World: a conservation census IUCN url p. 17.
- Travels of Ruiz, Pavón, and Dombey in Peru and Chile (1777-1788) / by Hipólito Ruiz; with an epilogue and official documents added by Agustín Jesús Barreiro; translation by B.E. Dahlgren. 21 1940 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1940. url p. 179.
- World Plant Conservation Bibliography WCMC, Royal Botanic Gardens url p. 633.
Notes
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Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 10, 2007:
- Australian National Herbarium
- , Australian National Herbarium
- Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Biologiezentrum Linz
- 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
- Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
- , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3482740
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-102648
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13745793
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:667594-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 746348
Footnotes
- Mean = 553.680 meters (1,816.535 feet), Standard Deviation = 649.370 based on 205 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
