학명 : Chamaedorea metallica O.F.Cook ex H.E.Moore
분류 : Arecaceae
참조 사이트
https://www.palmpedia.net/wiki/Chamaedorea_metallica
사진 : 2023.02.05 부천 수피아식물원
아래 : 2023.02.21 부천수피아식물원
Palmpedia 설명
Chamaedorea metallica is found in Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southwest. MEXICO,
Veracruz, Oaxaca? Dense, wet forest on the Atlantic slope; alt. 50-600 m elevation; usually on limestone.
Native to Southeastern Mexico, where it occurs naturally in dense wet forests along the Atlantic limestone slopes, up to 2000 feet above sea level, and lowland rainforests of Veracruz and Oaxaca, Mexico.
Description
Habit: solitary, slender, erect, 2-3 m tall. Stem: 1.3-1.5 cm in diam., green, minutely but distinctly whitespotted, nodes prominent, internodes 1.5-2.5 cm long, adventitious roots often appearing at base. Leaves: 12-16 per crown, rather stiffly ascending or ascending-spreading with blades cupped upward toward apex, usually bifid but often variously pinnate, metallic-blue-green; sheath 7-8 cm long, tubular but split opposite petiole to within 1-2 cm of base; petiole 2.5-4 cm long, very slightly grooved and green above, rounded and pale below; rachis 19-32 cm long, angled and green above, rounded below with a yellowish band extending onto sheath; blade 20-30 x 15 cm, 10-12 cm long on upper margin, cuneate obovate, incised apically to 1/3 its length, 8-11 primary nerves on each side of rachis, these prominent but not much elevated above, impressed below, 5-6 secondaries between each pair of primaries, minutely and irregularly toothed along margin at apex of each primary nerve especially toward base; or, sometimes blade pinnate, pinnae 3-8 on each side of rachis, 2.5-6.5 cm wide, sigmoid, 1-3-nerved, toothed along outer margin above middle. Inflorescences: interfoliar but often infrafoliar in fruit, solitary, spreading-erect. Staminate with peduncle 10-25 cm long or more, pale or greenish in flower; bracts 3-4, lowermost 3 cm long, flattened, 2-edged, others 6-14 cm long, uppermost exceeding peduncle, all tubular, greenish, papery; rachis 4-6 cm long, pale or greenish in flower; rachillae 10-12, these 9-15 cm long, 1.5- 2 mm wide at base, simple, ascending to erect, usually flexuous at apex, pale green in flower.