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Internal ID UUID643ff0b6b873f251020294
Scientific name Welfia regia
Authority T.Moore & Mast.
First published in Gard. Chron. 1869: 1236 (1869)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Welfia georgii H.Wendl. & Burret Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 63(2): 125, descr. ampl. 1930 [1 Mar 1930]
Welfia microcarpa Burret Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 63: 129 (1930)
Welfia georgii B.S.Williams Choice Stove Greenh. Pl. : 314 (1870)

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Language Common/alternative name
English amargo palm
English costa rica feather palm
English honduras feather palm
English panama feather palm
Chinese 星蕊椰
Chinese 羽叶椰

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  • Southern America
    • Central America
      • Costa Rica
      • Honduras
      • Nicaragua
      • Panamá
    • Western South America
      • Colombia
      • Ecuador

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000334047
Tropicos 50078354
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:670285-1
The Plant List kew-214387
Open Tree Of Life 868427
NCBI Taxonomy 93324
IPNI 670285-1
iNaturalist 366134
GBIF 2738927
EOL 1127832

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Differential Species Richness and Ecological Success of Epiphytes and Hemiepiphytes of Neotropical Araceae and Cyclanthaceae Riordan EC, Gerst KL, Vargas Ramirez O, Rundel PW Plants (Basel) 28-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10708273
doi:10.3390/plants12234004
PMID:38068640
Venom Function of a New Species of Megalomyrmex Forel, 1885 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Sozanski K, do Prado LP, Mularo AJ, Sadowski VA, Jones TH, Adams RM Toxins (Basel) 29-Oct-2020
PMCID:PMC7693960
doi:10.3390/toxins12110679
PMID:33137918
Disturbance and the elevation ranges of woody plant species in the mountains of Costa Rica Muñoz Mazón M, Klanderud K, Finegan B, Veintimilla D, Bermeo D, Murrieta E, Delgado D, Sheil D Ecol Evol 25-Nov-2019
PMCID:PMC6953661
doi:10.1002/ece3.5870
PMID:31938522
Targeted Capture of Hundreds of Nuclear Genes Unravels Phylogenetic Relationships of the Diverse Neotropical Palm Tribe Geonomateae Loiseau O, Olivares I, Paris M, de La Harpe M, Weigand A, Koubínová D, Rolland J, Bacon CD, Balslev H, Borchsenius F, Cano A, Couvreur TL, Delnatte C, Fardin F, Gayot M, Mejía F, Mota-Machado T, Perret M, Roncal J, Sanin MJ, Stauffer F, Lexer C, Kessler M, Salamin N Front Plant Sci 12-Jul-2019
PMCID:PMC6640726
doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.00864
PMID:31396244
Indigenous knowledge networks in the face of global change Cámara-Leret R, Fortuna MA, Bascompte J Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 01-May-2019
PMCID:PMC6525496
doi:10.1073/pnas.1821843116
PMID:31043567
Drivers of tropical rainforest composition and alpha diversity patterns over a 2,520 m altitudinal gradient Veintimilla D, Ngo Bieng MA, Delgado D, Vilchez‐Mendoza S, Zamora N, Finegan B Ecol Evol 16-Apr-2019
PMCID:PMC6540655
doi:10.1002/ece3.5155
PMID:31160993
Fruit production is influenced by tree size and size‐asymmetric crowding in a wet tropical forest Minor DM, Kobe RK Ecol Evol 15-Jan-2019
PMCID:PMC6374663
doi:10.1002/ece3.4867
PMID:30805174
Cryptic species within cryptic moths: new species of Dunama Schaus (Notodontidae, Nystaleinae) in Costa Rica Chacón IA, Janzen DH, Hallwachs W, J. Bolling Sullivan, Hajibabaei M Zookeys 06-Feb-2013
PMCID:PMC3668374
doi:10.3897/zookeys.264.4440
PMID:23730176
Twenty-five years of progress in understanding pollination mechanisms in palms (Arecaceae) Barfod AS, Hagen M, Borchsenius F Ann Bot 09-Aug-2011
PMCID:PMC3219497
doi:10.1093/aob/mcr192
PMID:21831852
Phylogenetic relationships among arecoid palms (Arecaceae: Arecoideae) Baker WJ, Norup MV, Clarkson JJ, Couvreur TL, Dowe JL, Lewis CE, Pintaud JC, Savolainen V, Wilmot T, Chase MW Ann Bot 16-Feb-2011
PMCID:PMC3219489
doi:10.1093/aob/mcr020
PMID:21325340
Monocot Leaves are Eaten Less than Dicot Leaves in Tropical Lowland Rain Forests: Correlations with Toughness and Leaf Presentation Grubb PJ, Jackson RV, Barberis IM, Bee JN, Coomes DA, Dominy NJ, De La Fuente MA, Lucas PW, Metcalfe DJ, Svenning JC, Turner IM, Vargas O Ann Bot 02-Apr-2008
PMCID:PMC2710256
doi:10.1093/aob/mcn047
PMID:18387972

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