Arecaceae
The Arecaceae is a family of perennial flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all commonly known as palms. Those having a tree-like form are called palm trees ...
Palms in this genus usually have solitary stems; clustered stems are less common, and a few are stolon-like subterranean. The stems are normally spineless, but some species have spiny leaf sheaths or spines. Those species that have upright trunks grow tall with stems that are in diameter.
The leaves of all but one species, '' S. smithii'', are pinnately compound. Leaf sheaths are split along their entire length, and consequently, crownshafts are not present in this genus. The transition from the leaf sheath to the petiole can be gradual and difficult to identify, but in species where they can be distinguished, leaf sheaths are long and the petioles are .
The
inflorescences
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are unbranched or branch once; a single hybrid, ''S''. × ''lacerdamourae'', occasionally shows second-order branching, and emerge from between the leaves. They are monoecious, with both male and female flowers borne in the same inflorescence. The fruit are drupes, which vary in colour from green to orange to brown. They range in size from in length, and in diameter.
Arecoideae
The Arecaceae is a family of perennial flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all commonly known as palms. Those having a tree-like form are called palm trees ...
, the
tribe
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Cocoseae
Cocoseae is a tribe of cocosoid palms of the family Arecaceae.
Description
The fruit of the Cocoseae is a modified drupe, with a sclerenchymatous epicarp and a highly developed mesocarp, formed mainly by parenchyma . The endocarp is generally sc ...
Butia
''Butia'' is a genus of palms in the family Arecaceae, native to the South American countries of Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. Many species produce edible fruits, which are sometimes used to make alcoholic beverages and other foods. ...
Jubaea
''Jubaea'' is a genus of palms with one species, ''Jubaea chilensis'' or ''Jubaea spectabilis'', commonly known in English as the Chilean wine palm or Chile cocopalm, and palma chilena in Spanish. It is native to southwestern South America and i ...
Parajubaea
''Parajubaea'' is a genus of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae
The Arecaceae is a family of perennial flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all comm ...
''Syagrus'' is an almost entirely South American genus. The only non-South American species, '' S. amara'', is endemic to five islands in the Lesser Antilles. The genus is found from sea level to elevations of above sea level.
Ecology
''S. coronata'' nuts are the favored food of
Lear's macaw
Lear's macaw (''Anodorhynchus leari''), also known as the indigo macaw, is a large all-blue Brazilian parrot, a member of a large group of neotropical parrots known as macaws. It was first described by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1856. Lear's mac ...
, whose bill size and shape are particularly adapted to crack them.
''Syagrus'' species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including '' Batrachedra nuciferae'' (recorded on ''S. coronae'') and '' Paysandisia archon'' (recorded on ''S. romanzoffiana'').
Syagrus comosa Syagrus may refer to:
* Syagrus (legendary poet), a legendary Greek oral poet
*Syagrus (plant)
''Syagrus'' is a genus of Arecaceae (palms), native to South America, with one species endemic to the Lesser Antilles. The genus is closely related ...
Syagrus petraea Syagrus may refer to:
* Syagrus (legendary poet), a legendary Greek oral poet
*Syagrus (plant)
''Syagrus'' is a genus of Arecaceae (palms), native to South America, with one species endemic to the Lesser Antilles. The genus is closely related ...
Butia campicola
''Butia campicola'' is a very small species of ''Butia'' palm with an underground trunk; native to the cerrados of central Paraguay and south-central Brazil.
Etymology & common names
The species epithet ''campicola'' is derived from its prefe ...
Butia eriospatha
''Butia eriospatha'' is a small species of ''Butia'' palm endemic to the highlands of southern Brazil. It is very similar to ''B. odorata'', but is easily distinguished from this species by the distinct spathes which are densely covered in rust- ...
'' (Mart. ex Drude) Becc. (as ''S. eriospatha'' (Mart. ex Drude) Glassman)
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Butia paraguayensis
''Butia paraguayensis'' is a species of ''Butia'' palm tree found in the cerrado region of South America. Its natural range runs from Mato Grosso do Sul and São Paulo in southern Brazil through Paraguay to northern Argentina and Uruguay. It was ...
Butia yatay
''Butia yatay'', the jelly palm or yatay palm, is a '' Butia'' palm native to southern Brazil, Uruguay and northern Argentina. It is known as the ''butiá-jataí'' in Portuguese in the south of Brazil, as well as simply ''jataí'' or ''butiá''. ...