Acrocomia intumescens

[edric]

Anyone have information about Acrocomia intumescens, thanks, Ed

[Gileno Machado]

Hi Ed,

Acrocomia intumescens is a species endemic to coastal Northeastern Brazil, locally called Macaíba, and widely used in landscape here in my town. I guess the species was included in the Acrocomia aculeata group in the past but the Brazilian authors (Lorenzi and Medeiros Costa) still consider it to be a separate species.

These palms differ from aculeata for their bulge near the midpoint of the trunk, always smooth when adult, in opposite to A. aculeata. The fronds, fruit and flowers are also very distinctive.

[Eric in Orlando]

I have an old Gentes Herbarum paper from Sept. 1941, the issue on Acrocomia species when they were all still seperate. This is what it has about A. intumescens;

to 10m and more tall, bole tumid at middle and above, petioles spiny and deciduous, leaves large and long making a thin or open head, lower ones drooping, many pinnae broad and quilled, as much as 3cm

says it is native to Brazil, region of Rio de Janeiro, state of Ceara

[Breadfruit Bill]

Those documents can be found in Eric's thread...

http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?s=...st&p=244466