Bactris hirta var. pectinata (Mart.) Govaerts

First published in R.H.A.Govaerts & J.Dransfield, World Checkl. Palms: 26 (2005)

This variety is accepted

The native range of this variety is S. Tropical America. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution: Widespread and common in Colombia (Amazonas, Guainía, Vaupés), Venezuela (Amazonas, Bolívar), the Guianas, Peru (Loreto, Madre de Dios, San Martín), Brazil (A mapa, Amazonas, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Maranhao, Para, Pernambuco, Rondonia), and Bolivia (Pando); usually in lowland rain forest on terra firme, at 106-1670 m elevation.
General Description: Sheath spinulose or tomentose, sparsely to densely covered with black spines 1-3(-5) cm long; petiole 40-89 cm long; blade simple or pinnate; pinnate leaves with 7-30 pinnae per side, linear, regularly or irregularly arranged, spreading in the same plane; middle pinnae to 37 x 1-2 cm (rarely pinnate leaf with2-5, broad, sigmoid, densely pilose pinnae, with the apical pinna much wider than the others); simple or partially divided blades to 80 cm long, to 20 cm wide at rachis apex. Fruits spinulose.

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Kew Backbone Distributions
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