Aphandra is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the palm family native to the Amazon rainforest vegetation in South America (Ecuador, Brazil, and Peru). Its only species is Aphandra natalia, sometimes called mastodon palm or fiber palm, and is used by indigenous peoples in the construction of brooms and other products. [1]

2019年7月27日 · Stand of Aphandra natalia, an ivory palm growing in lowland and premontane rain forests of Ecuador, Peru and northern Brazil (photo credit: Mikkel B. Sørensen).

Origin and Habitat: South America ( Amazon rainforest stretching to the foothills of the Andes lowlands, from south of Río Napo in eastern Ecuador, through the northern parts of Amazonian Peru, and into Acre in western Brazil). Altitude: Up to 800-1000 metres asl.

Aphandra is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the palm family native to the Amazon rainforest vegetation in South America (Ecuador, Brazil, and Peru). Its only species is Aphandra natalia, sometimes called mastodon palm or fiber palm, and is used by indigenous peoples in the construction of brooms and other products.

2014年1月1日 · The only representative of its genus, Aphandra natalia is an understory palm of montane forests on the eastern slopes of the Andes from Ecuador south to Peru and into the lowlands of Acre in the southwestern part of the Brazilian Amazon.

Aphandra natalia is a single-stemmed, evergreen palm growing 5 - 15 metres tall. The unbranched stem can be 20 - 22cm in diameter [ it is topped by a crown of 10 - 20 leaves that can be 8 metres long [ ]. The plant has several local uses as a food and source of materials.

2024年12月8日 · Aphandra is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the palm family native to the Amazon Rainforest vegetation in South America (Ecuador, Brazil, and Peru). Its only species is Aphandra natalia, sometimes called mastodon palm or fiber palm, and is used by indigenous peoples in the construction of br

Aphandra is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the palm family native to the Amazon rainforest vegetation in South America. Its only species is Aphandra natalia, sometimes called mastodon palm or fiber palm, and is used by indigenous peoples in the construction of brooms and other products.

It is a tree and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome. W part of the Amazon basin in Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil, on terra firme and on periodically inundated river banks. Stem solitary, to 10 m tall, ca. 20 cm in diameter.

Classification and research data for Aphandra, a genus of monocot in the family Arecaceae (palm family)..