Ceroxylon vogelianum

Ceroxylon vogelianum, also known as the Vogels wax palm is a palm native to the Andes from Venezuela south to Peru in humid montane forest, at an elevation of 1900 – 2900 meters.[2]

Ceroxylon vogelianum
Ceroxylon vogelianum cultivated at Bogota Botanical Garden.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
Genus: Ceroxylon
Species:
C. vogelianum
Binomial name
Ceroxylon vogelianum
Synonyms[1]
  • Ceroxylon coarctatum (Engel) H. Wendl.
  • Ceroxylon crispum Burret
  • Ceroxylon flexuosum Galeano & R.Bernal
  • Ceroxylon hexandrum Dugand
  • Ceroxylon verruculosum Burret
  • Klopstockia coarctata Engel
  • Klopstockia vogeliana Engel

Description

Ceroxylon vogelianum is a small to medium-sized palm with a stem of 3–17 meters tall and 12–25 cm in diameter.[2] The crown can have 6 to 18 leaves, most of them almost upright or horizontally arranged.[2] Leaf blades are made of 46–129 leaflets in a rhachis of 38–210 cm long; petiole 15–75 cm long.[2] Male inflorescences around 160 cm long, with about 40 branches; male flowers with 6 stamens, with filaments up to 1.5 mm long and anthers 1.6–2.5 mm long.[2] Female inflorescences around. 360 cm long with 31–53 branches; female flowers with 6 staminodes and a green pistil of 2–3 mm in diameter.[2] Fruits globose, orange-red when ripe, 1.6–2.0 cm diam. with seeds 1.1–1.6 cm diam.[2]

Distribution and habitat

This species is present in the Andes from Venezuela to Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.[2] It occurs in humid montane forest, between 1900–2900 meters of elevation, with sparse individuals.[2]

References
  1. "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species - Ceroxylon vogelianum (Engel) H. Wendl".
  2. Sanin, Maria Jose; Galeano, Gloria (2011). "A revision of the Andean wax palms, Ceroxylon (Arecaceae)" (PDF). Phytotaxa (34): 1–64. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
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