Cryosophila warscewiczii

Botanical Description

Palma de Escoba is a solitary-stemmed, evergreen palm growing up to 13 metres tall in the open, but generally smaller when growing in forests[ 315 Title Flora of Barro Colorado Island Publication Author Croat. Thomas B. Website http://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/bioinformatics/croat/home Publisher Stanford University Press Year 1978 ISBN 0-8047-0950-5 Description A very good flora of an area in Panama. Written some years ago, so some of the names have been changed. The book is out of print, but the whole flora is now available on the web. , 368 Title Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Volume 30 Publication Author Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden; St. Louis. Year 1943 ISBN Description Contains parts of the Flora of Panama.This, and other volumes of the series, are available for download from the Internet. ]. The fan-shaped leaves can be 2 metres across. The unbranched stem, which is 10 - 15 cm in diameter above the enlarged base, bears simple or branched spines, at least when young, that are up to 16 cm, rarely to 35 cm, long[ 315 Title Flora of Barro Colorado Island Publication Author Croat. Thomas B. Website http://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/bioinformatics/croat/home Publisher Stanford University Press Year 1978 ISBN 0-8047-0950-5 Description A very good flora of an area in Panama. Written some years ago, so some of the names have been changed. The book is out of print, but the whole flora is now available on the web. ]. The leaves are harvested from the wild and used locally as a source of fibre and for thatching.