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A palm tree (Iriartella setigera (Mart.) H. Wendl.) in fruit in Guyana. Watercolour by E.A. Goodall, 1846. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
The painting shows a slender, small palm with large internodes and bearing a crown of four pinnate leaves and two, infrafoliar, long-peduncle infructescences. There are no stilt roots. The leaf bases are depicted with short, dark bristles. The shape of the leaflets is rhomboidal. The peduncles appear to have three closely appressed peduncular bracts. The fruits are ovoid and red at maturity. The details of the sketch are sufficient to determine the palm as I. setigera, which may be solitary and may not always have obvious stilt roots (A. Henderson, The palms of the Amazon, Oxford University Press 1995)
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