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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Traits & measurements3 literature sources41 traits
Occurrence & distributionGBIF4 191 records
DNA & barcodingNCBIsequences
01Narrative
Attalea maripa - MHNT Attalea maripa, commonly called maripa palm is a palm native to tropical South America and Trinidad and Tobago. It grows up 35 m tall and can have leaves or fronds 10 – long. This plant has a yellow edible fruit which is oblong ovoid and cream. An edible oil can be extracted from the pulp of the fruit and from the kernel of the seed.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Habitat GIFTÁrea Antrópica, Campinarana, Floresta de Terra Firme, Floresta de Várzea
Woodinesswoody
Physiology & chemistry2
Nitrogen fixingnon_nitrogen_fixer
Photosynthetic pathwayC3
Other traits5
Dbh max35 cm
Defenseno
Leaf spinesno
Shoot length max2 000 cm
Shoot orientationerect
05DNA & barcoding5 sequences
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Attalea maripa has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
Marker genes3
GenBank sequences5
Countries1
The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
★matK1★rbcL2★ITS2
plant barcodefungal barcode
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type4 191 records
Wild obs. + sensor3 924
Museum / vouchered266
Cultivated / captive1
Origin
Native16
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO2 440 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy98% within 1 km
≤100 m 2 019≤1 km 34≤10 km 18>10 km 26
2 097 georeferenced · 1 827 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor3 924
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Coordinate accuracy7% within 1 km
≤100 m 3≤10 km 33>10 km 5
41 georeferenced · 225 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence266
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Coordinate accuracy
no georeferenced coordinates · 1 records without
Open the mapnot free-living1
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions15 of 34 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Bronx, US
69
Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas - SINCHIlocation not on record
33
Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL)location not on record
27
Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH)location not on record
25
Xiamen, CN
22
Kew, GB
11
Aarhus, DK
8
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
7
Saint Louis, US
6
Universidade do Estado de Mato Grossolocation not on record
5
Universidad de la Amazonia (UniAmazonia)location not on record
4
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldilocation not on record
4
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)location not on record
4
La Paz, BO
4
Anton de Kom University of Surinamelocation not on record
3
Brasília, BR
3
Cenargenlocation not on record
3
UEMAlocation not on record
3
Altos de Pipe, VE
2
Paris, FR
2
Quito, EC
2
IECOSlocation not on record
2
San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record
2
arosemena tola, EC
2
UEPAlocation not on record
2
Porto Velho, BR
1
ASUlocation not on record
1
Empresa Pernambucana de Pesquisa Agropecuária, IPAlocation not on record
1
Chicago, US
1
R. Bernal & H. Balslevlocation not on record
1
Universidade Federal do Maranhãolocation not on record
1
Miami, US
1
JBRJlocation not on record
1
Fort Worth, US
1
34 institutions · 264 of 266 vouchered records shown · 2 without an institution code
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation5 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility4 191 records↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗