Overview
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Endangered |
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Description
Habitat
Ecology: This small palm tree
is scattered
in cloud forest
and montane
open forest
(high Andean forest)
between 2,000 and 3,000 m.
[1]
List of Habitats
:1.9Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
)
- Plants
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Vascular Plants
- Class:
Liliopsida
()
- Order:
Arecales
()
- Family:
Noctuoidea
()
- Genus:
Aiphanes
()
- Specific epithet:
verrucosa
- Borchs. & Balslev
- Botanical name: - Aiphanes verrucosa Borchs. & Balslev
- Specific epithet:
verrucosa
- Borchs. & Balslev
- Genus:
Aiphanes
(
- Family:
Noctuoidea
(
- Order:
Arecales
(
- Class:
Liliopsida
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
Notes
Publishing author : Borchs. & Balslev Publication : see also Nordic J. Bot., 10(1): 48 (1990) 1990
Similar Species
Members of the genus Aiphanes
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 58 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
A. acanthophylla · A. acaulis · A. aculeata (Ruffle Palm) · A. bicornis · A. caryotaefolia · A. caryotifolia (Coyure Palm) · A. caryotoides · A. chiribogensis · A. chocoensis · A. concinna · A. corallina (Coyor) · A. deltoidea · A. disticha · A. duquei · A. echinocarpa · A. eggersii · A. elegans · A. erinacea · A. erosa · A. fosteriorum · A. fuscopubens · A. gelatinosa · A. gracilis · A. graminifolia · A. grandis · A. hirsuta · A. hirsuta subsp. fosteriorum · A. hirsuta subsp. intermedia · A. hirsuta subsp. kalbreyeri · A. horrida · A. hursuta · A. kalbreyeri · A. killipii · A. leiospatha · A. leiostachys · A. lindeniana · A. linearis · A. luciana · A. macroloba · A. minima (Guinea Bactris) · A. monostachys · A. orinocensis · A. pachyclada · A. parvifolia · A. pilaris · A. praemorsa · A. praga · A. schultzeana · A. simplex · A. spicata · A. stergiosii · A. tessmannii · A. tricuspidata · A. truncata · A. ulei · A. verrucosa · A. vincentiana · A. weberbaueri
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Further Reading
- Borchsenius, F., Borgtoft Pedersen, B.H. and Balslev, H. 1998. Manual to the Palms of Ecuador. AAU Reports 37
- Borchsenius, F.and Skov, F. Conservation status of palms in Ecuador. Unpublished manuscript.
- IUCN. 2003. 2003 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 18 November 2003.
- Johnson, D. et al. 1997. Completed data collection forms for palms.
- Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers) 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.
- Valencia, R., Pitman, N., León-Yánez, S. and Jørgensen, P.M. (eds). 2000. Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endémicas del Ecuador 2000. Publicaciones del Herbario QCA, Ponticicia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito.
- Valencia, R., Pitman, N., León-Yánez, S. and Jørgensen, P.M. (eds). 2000. Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endémicas del Ecuador 2000. Publicaciones del Herbario QCA, Ponticicia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito.
- Walter, K.S. and Gillett, H.J. (eds). 1998. 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. IUCN - The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 16, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
- Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N. 2003. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
- Systematic Database of the Scale Insects of the World 2004.
- World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 16, 2008:
- Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3482259
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-5138
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 271906-2
- IUCN ID: 38069
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1024964
Footnotes
- Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N. 2003. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]
