Palmae Euterpe dominicana Bailey

| |	© W.D. Hawthorne

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Keywords in this picture :

• Foliage
• Rachis
• Vegetative
• Leaf parts
• Leaf
• Parts of compound lvs
• Plant parts

Places where this species can be found :

• Grand Etang - GRENADA

Species information

Description
Slender palms up to 20m tall; stem up to 35cm diameter, smooth with faint leaf scars; often flared towards base and with aerial roots. Levaes 3-5m long, with pendulous leaflets, pale green to yellowish. Conspiucuous crownshaft longer than the infl bracts. Leaflet bases not touching across rachis?

Interest
Euterpe - named after one of the Muses, the one responsible for music. A fanciful reference to the sound of the wind in the leaves?

Specimen information

Collector
W.D. Hawthorne, S.Cable & D. Jules

Specimen Number
616

Location
Road near crater lake.

Notes
Tree 12 m tall. FRONDS: 4 m long. FLOWERS: white.

Coordinates
Latitude: 12.060000 N   Longitude: 61.420000 W   Altitude: 600