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butyracea

Taxon

Attalea butyracea (Mutis ex L.f.) Wess.Boer

Protologue Pittieria 17: 312. 1988 [Feb 1988]IPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Attalea butyracea. 981097 A--FL. Fairchild Tropical Gard. 16 Jan 03. 045.jpg

Attalea butyracea. 981097 A--FL. Fairchild Tropical Gard. 16 Jan 03. 045.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Attalea butyracea. 981097 A--FL. Fairchild Tropical Gard. 16 Jan 03. 046.jpg

Attalea butyracea. 981097 A--FL. Fairchild Tropical Gard. 16 Jan 03. 046.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Attalea butyracea. 981097 A--FL. Fairchild Tropical Gard. 16 Jan 03. 047.jpg

Attalea butyracea. 981097 A--FL. Fairchild Tropical Gard. 16 Jan 03. 047.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution

Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO

Occurrences

981097 A

January 16, 2003

Location

United States, Florida, Miami-Dade County (Coral Gables, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden)

25.676781, -80.272034

Location Remarks

10901 Old Cutler Rd., Coral Gables

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Arecales

Family

Arecaceae

Genus

Attalea

Specific Epithet

butyracea

Authorship

(Mutis ex L.f.) Wess.Boer

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 1.0

Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.

Threat status

Predicted not threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

0.1

Global rank

#282,953 of 335,497

Top 85%

Extinction probability

9%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →