Bactris militaris H.E.Moore

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Origin and Habitat: Atlantic coast of Costa Rica (Limon) (and probably adjacent Nicaragua and Panama) and less commonly Pacific coast of Costa Rica (Puntarenas.
Habitat: This species grows in marshlands and low-lying swampy areas adjacent to the coast, rarely in wet lowland forests to 400 m elevation.

Description: Bactris militarisSN|24843]]SN|24843]] is a very striking multiple stemmed small palm with short spiny stems and very characteristic undivided leaves also spiny. Extremely rare, and thought to be extinct until recently rediscovered.
Stems: Solitary or clustered, but usually caespitose (growing in tufts or clumps), in tight clumps of 5-20 cane-like stem 3-5 m tall and 2.5-4 cm diameter, and armed with very long, black, needlelike spines.
Leaves (fronds): 6 to 8 per crown, upright, slightly arching, blade simple (completely undivided), a very unusual condition in this genus, dark grey/green, leathery and narrow, stiffly erect, elongate cuneate-oblanceolate in outline, strongly plicate, gradually expanded from a narrowly cuneate base to the bifid apex, without cross-veins; blade to 3 m long, to 25 cm wide at apex of rachis, lateral surfaces of petiole, rachis, and margins of blade sparsely covered with black, terete, spines to 8,5 (or more) cm long, sheath to 37 cm long; ocrea not seen; petiole to 20 cm long; rachis to 2.8 m long;
Inflorescences: Interfoliar erect in flower and fruit with 14-23 flowering branches, not spiny; prophyll; peduncle 20-39 cm long, 13-19 cm long; peduncular bract 30-49 cm long, densely tomentose, sparsely covered with slender brown spines to 4 mm long; rachis to 10 cm long; rachillae 14-23, to 6 cm long, at anthesis densely covered with brown, moniliform trichomes;
Flowers: Inflorescences i triads irregularly arranged among paired or solitary staminate flowers; staminate flowers 3-4 mm long; sepal lobes 1-1.5 mm long; petals3-4 mm long; stamens 6; pistillode absent; pistillate flowers 3-4 mm long; calyx annular, 0.5- 1 mm long; corolla urceolate, 3- 3.5 mm long; staminodes minute.
Fruits: Globose to broadly abovoid, indistinct lyrostrate, 1,5-l,7 cm in diameter, red; mesocarp mealy; endocarp turbinate, pitted, the sterile pores displaced longitudinally; endocarp fibers few; fruiting perianth with minute calyx and longer corolla, without staminodial ring.
Blooming season: The small white flowers are produced from late April until early July and the attractive red fruits mature from about mid-August until November.

Bactris militaris (llifle.com)

Bactris militaris - Palmpedia - Palm Grower's Guide

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