A palm tree (Mauritiella armata (Mart.) Burret) in Guyana with a man and smaller palm in the distance. Watercolour by E.A. Goodall, 1846.

  • Goodall, Edward A.
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Oct.r 19th 1846
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21762i
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A palm tree (Mauritiella armata (Mart.) Burret) in Guyana with a man and smaller palm in the distance. Watercolour by E.A. Goodall, 1846. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced April 2024 : The prickly ita palm (Mauritia armata) with a man and smaller palm in the distance. Coloured pencil drawing after C. Goodall, 1846.

Description

A clustering palm with armed stems and deeply divided, fan-shaped leaves. A person holding a spear or staff and the outline of a smaller cluster of palms are in the background. Although the genus has come to comprise four species (M.F. Torres Jiménez et al. 'Phylogenomics of the palm tribe Lepidocaryeae (Calamoideae: Arecaceae) and description of a new species of Mauritiella', Systematic botany, 2022, 46: 863-874), M. armata is the only one that occurs in Guyana (A. Henderson et al., Field guide to the palms of the Americas, Princeton University Press 1995)

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Serge Hill [Hertfordshire], Oct.r 19th 1846

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1 drawing : pencil, with watercolour

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The prickly Ita palm Mauritia armata. From a sketch by E.A. Goodall in British Guiana. Serge Hill Oct.r 19th 1846

References note

Scott Zona and William Schupbach, 'The Guyanese palms of Edward Angelo Goodall', Palms, 2024 (in press)

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Wellcome Collection 21762i

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