Arecaceae
Desmoncus

Desmoncus cirrhifer A.H.Gentry & Zardini

First published in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75: 1436 (1988 publ. 1989)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Panama to W. Ecuador. It is a climber and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome. It is used for food.

Descriptions

Distribution
Biogeografic region: Pacific. Elevation range: 0–800 m a.s.l. Native to Colombia. Colombian departments: Antioquia, Cauca, Chocó, Nariño, Valle del Cauca.
Habit
Climbing.
Conservation
National Red List of Colombia (2021): LC.
Ecology
Habitat according IUCN Habitats Classification: forest and woodland, shrubland, artificial - terrestrial.
[UPFC]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Bernal, R., G. Galeano, A. Rodríguez, H. Sarmiento y M. Gutiérrez. 2017. Nombres Comunes de las Plantas de Colombia. http://www.biovirtual.unal.edu.co/nombrescomunes/

Vernacular
guasca matamba, jaladanta, matamba, piyandé
[UNAL]

General Description
Plants 11.0(3.0-20.0) m tall; stems 2.0(1.2-3.0) cm diameter, clustered. Leaf petioles 10.8(7.0-16.5) cm long; rachises 105.3(91.0-117.0) cm long, 6.0(4.0-8.1) mm wide, the spines usually <1 cm long, mostly abaxial, recurved with markedly swollen bases; pinnae 9(7-15) per side of rachis, with long, filiform apices, without a beard of spines at the bases, without spinules or dense tomentum at the bases adaxially; basal pinna 19.4(17.0-21.0) cm long, 4.2(2.5-6.0) cm wide; cirri poorly-developed, the rachis terminating in a short cirrus, acanthophylls absent but some small, acanthophyll-like pinnae present, with many, usually paired spines. Inflorescences with the rachis angular, slightly twisted, thicker than the few to numerous, closely spaced and spirally arranged rachillae, each rachilla not (or very rarely) adnate to the rachis, subtended by an acute bracteole and with a well-developed axillary pulvinus; peduncles 5.4(3.3-7.1) mm wide; peduncular bracts 22.5 cm long, broad, ribbed or ridged, densely covered with felty, reddish-brown tomentum, sparsely covered with short, scarcely swollen-based, diagonally oriented, flattened spines, whitish-brown proximally, brown distally, with tomentose margins; rachillae 24(19-33), tomentose initially; proximal rachillae 6.0(4.0- 8.0) cm long, 1.7(1.4-2.0) mm wide; stamens 6; fruits 18.2(14.3-20.9) mm long, 13.4(9.8-15.7) mm wide, the surfaces uneven with numerous, subepidermal, short, often branching (Y-shaped) fibers; fruiting corollas less than one quarter as long as fruits, splitting irregularly into 3 lobes, the lobes often splitting again; endocarps globose to obovoid with rounded or slightly peaked apices, the pores lateral. Subcanopy reaching liana. Stems clustered, to 10 m long, 1-2 cm in diameter. Leaves 1-2 m long; rachis in adult plants armed with numerous short, recurved spines used in climbing; pinnae 5-9 on each side, regularly spaced, elliptic, thin, nearly glabrous, to 20 cm long and 7 cm wide, distally extended into an up to 10 cm long filament; distal part of the leaf axis with a few pairs of pinnae transformed into climbing hooks. Inflorescence 30-50 cm long; branches 15-20, each 15-20 cm long. Fruits yellow to red, elongate, 1.5-2.5 cm long.
Distribution
From 9°24'N-1°27'S and 75°05'-79°84'W in central and eastern Panama, western Colombia, and western Ecuador at 180(1-700) m elevation in wet, lowland rainforest, sometimes in disturbed areas W Colombia and Ecuador, in tropical and pre-montane moist and wet forest up to 900 m elevation.
[PW]

Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Distribution
Nativa en Colombia; Alt. 0 - 800 m.; Pacífico, Valle del Magdalena.
Morphology General Habit
Trepadora
Conservation
Preocupación Menor
[CPLC]

Uses

Use Food
Used for food.
[UPFC]

Sources

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