Oenocarpus bacaba

Family

Arecaceae

Genus

Oenocarpus

Species

bacaba

Authority

Mart.

Organ

leaf

Type

phytolith

Form

spheroid > echinate

Form synonym

globular echinate

Diagnostic level

variable

Comments

Spheroid echinate assymetric, elongate and reniform. Reniform echinates are possibly diagnostic to the Oenocarpus genus (Morcote-Rios et al. 2016)

Published in

Watling et al, 2020

Specimen Origin

CENARGEN Embrapa, Brasilia

Location of archive

MAE-USP

Entry Made by

Kevin Cocchi

ID

203