Chamaedorea pinnatifrons (Jacq.) Oerst.

First published in Vidensk. Meddel. Naturhist. Foren. Kjøbenhavn 1858: 14 (1859)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Central Mexico to S. Tropical America. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome. It is used as animal food and a medicine, has environmental uses and social uses and for food.

Distribution

Native to:

Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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PAFTOL

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
  • Hammel, B.E. & al. (2003). Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica 2: 1-694. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., Ortiz, R.D.C., Callejas Posada, R. & Merello, M. (eds.) (2011). Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 1-939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
  • Lorenzi, H., Noblick, L.R., Kahn, F. & Ferreira, E. (2010). Brazilian Flora Arecaceae (Palms): 1-268. Instituto Plantarum de Estudos da Flora LTDA, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  • Stevens, W.D., Ulloa U., C., Pool, A. & Montiel, O.M. (2001). Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: i-xlii, 1-2666. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Palmweb - Palms of the World Online

  • Borchsenius F., Borgtoft-Pedersen H. and Baslev H. 1998. Manual to the Palms of Ecuador. AAU Reports 37. Department of Systematic Botany, University of Aarhus, Denmark in collaboration with Pontificia Universidad Catalica del Ecuador

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • 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

Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

  • Linares, E. (1994). Inventario preliminar de las plantas utilizadas para elaborar artesanías en Colombia. Vniversitas Scientarium. Vol 2: 1-38
  • Palmweb: Palms of the World Online, in The State of the World’s Plants Report–2016. (2016). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew https://stateoftheworldsplants.org/2016/

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Amith, J. & collaborators (2020). Nahuatl Learning Environment http://www.balsas-nahuatl.org/index.html.
  • GBIF (2008- continuously updated). Global Biodiversity Information Facility http://www.gbif.org/.
  • Hammel, B.E. & al. (2003). Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica 2: 1-694. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • FPI (2021). Food Plants International. https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World?homeurl=https://foodplantsinternational.com/plants/
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • GRIN (2021). Germplasm Resources Information Network from the United States Department of Agriculture. https://www.ars-grin.gov/
  • Galeano, G., & Bernal, R. (2010). Palmas de Colombia: guía de campo (No. 26042) CO-BAC, Bogotá).
  • IUCN (2021). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2021-2. https://www.iucnredlist.org.
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (2019). Lista de especies vedadas por la resolución 213 de 1977. 8256 especies. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=le_plantaspriorizadas_2019
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
  • Palmweb (2021). Palmweb: Palms of the World Online. http://palmweb.org/node/2
  • Willis, K.J. (ed.) (2017). State of the World’s Plants 2017. Report. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Dec 1, 2011 Cultivated [1984-160] Costa Rica K000667817 No
Jan 1, 2009 Projeto Flora Cristalino [269] Brazil K000652777 Yes
Nov 1, 2007 Sasaki, D.; Henicka, G.S.; André, T.J.C.; Piva, J.H. [1490] Brazil K000652776 Yes
May 27, 2006 Ecuador K000707448 Yes
Nov 4, 2005 Morales, J.F. [7658] Costa Rica K001611066 Yes
Jan 1, 2004 Thomas; Villasenor, J.L. [3664] Mexico K000209275 No
Jan 1, 2004 Cultivated [1994-2151] K000520364 No
Nov 1, 1997 Valverde, O.; Estrada, A.; Gomez, H. [314] Costa Rica K000209281 No
Jul 1, 1996 Cascante; Blanco, M. [954] Costa Rica K000209284 No
Dec 1, 1995 Cascante [606] Costa Rica K000209280 No
Oct 1, 1993 Herrera; Ampie, R.; Jimenez, J.J. [6399] Costa Rica K000209286 No
Oct 1, 1993 Ling, F.; Lopez, F.; Zuniga, M. [27] Costa Rica K000209279 No
Nov 1, 1990 Spruce, R. [67] Peru K000462916 Type Yes
Nov 1, 1990 Spruce, R. [67] Peru K000462915 Type Yes
May 15, 1988 N. Grenade K001447236 Yes
Jan 23, 1987 Smith, H.H. [2477], Colombia K001447235 Yes
Aug 13, 1979 Bolivia K000667345 Yes
Aug 1, 1917 Peru K001447230 Yes
Moore, H.E. [8106] Mexico K000209283 No
Liesner, R.; Judziewicz, E. [14548] Costa Rica K000209276 No
Smith, J.D. [2134] Guatemala K000209269 No
Brazil K:SPC-70000.286 No
Yuncker, T.G.; Dawson, R.F.; Youse, H.R. [6086] Honduras K000209273 No
[10431] Bolivia K001447234 Yes
Tucker, J.M. [1357] El Salvador K000209272 No
Purpus, C.A. [16207] Mexico K000209274 No
Davidse, G.; Herrera, G.; Warner, R.H. [25683] Costa Rica K000209282 No
Grayum, M.; Schatz, G. [5137] Costa Rica K000209285 No
Altamirano, N.; Lozano, R., Flores, G. [1019] Bolivia K000667345 Yes
Bourgeau [2189] Mexico K000209267 No
Yuncker, T.G.; Koepper, J.M.; Wagner, K.A. [8474] Honduras K000209270 No
Smith, J.D. [2134] Guatemala K000209268 No
Bourgeau [2189] Mexico K000209266 No
Moritz, J.W.K. [s.n.] Colombia K001447227 Yes
Moore, H.E. [6690] Costa Rica K000209277 No
Smith, J.D. [2047] Guatemala K000209271 No
Smith, H.H. [2477] Colombia K001447235 Yes
Couvreur, T.L.P.; Jeanson, M. L.; Guevara, J.E [TC110] Ecuador K000707448 Yes
Nee, M.; Diggs, G.; Ramirez, F. [25025] Mexico K000209278 No
Moritz, J.W.K. [s.n.], Colombia K001447227 Yes
Peru K001447228 Yes
Peru K001447229 Yes
Peru K001447231 Yes
N. Grenade K001447232 Yes
N. Grenade K001447233 Yes
Bolivia K001447234 Yes
N. Grenade K001447237 Yes
Ecuador K001447238 Yes
Colombia K001447239 Yes
Ecuador K001447240 Yes
Ecuador K001447241 Yes
Ecuador K001447242 Yes
Venezuela K001447243 Yes
Venezuela K001447244 Yes
Venezuela K001447245 Yes
Venezuela K001447246 Yes
Colombia K001447247 Yes
Peru K001447248 Yes
Peru K001447249 Yes
Panama K001447250 Yes
Bolivia K001447251 Yes
Ecuador K001447252 Yes
Ecuador K001447253 Yes
Ecuador K001447254 Yes
Panama K001447385 Yes
Ecuador K001447386 Yes
Venezuela K001447387 Yes
Venezuela K001447388 Yes
Venezuela K001447389 Yes
Bolivia K001447390 Yes
Bolivia K001447391 Yes
Bolivia K001447392 Yes
Bolivia K001447393 Yes
Bolivia K001447394 Yes
Ecuador K001447395 Yes
Ecuador K001447396 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Chamaedorea concolor K:SPC-48133.000 No

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

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  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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    • ColPlantA 2021. Published on the Internet at http://colplanta.org
    • https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
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  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
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    • Copyright applied to individual images
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    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
  • Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

    • ColPlantA database
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/