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A palm tree (Socratea exorrhiza (Mart.) H. Wendl.) in Guyana, with aerial roots. Watercolour by E.A. Goodall, 1846. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Identified in Goodall's lettering as “Iriartea species”, but the morphology of the root cone (sparse, widely spaced, spinose roots) is indicative of Socratea. A single species occurs in Guyana, Socratea exorrhiza. The uniform shape of the trunk (lacking any bulge), the crownshaft and the shape of the pinnae are concordant with S. exorrhiza (A. Henderson, The palms of the Amazon, Oxford University Press 1995)
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