Editing Chamaedorea oblongata

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[[File:Chamaedorea_oblongata.jpg|frame|Figure 1. ''C. oblongata'' at Naples Botanic Gardens]]
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===Synonymy:===
''Chamaedorea lunata''

===Distribution & Habitat:===
Moist or wet lowland forest on the Atlantic slope of Central America; to 350 m elevation; often on limestone.

===Description:===
An small, attractive, solitary palm to about 3m tall, with wide, bright green leaflets.
It exhibits a great deal of variability in shape of leaf and of fruit over its rather wide range.
Leaf shapes can be lanceolate and flat to broadly rhombic or trapezoid and cupped downward.
Fruits can be nearly globose to ellipsoid or slightly lunate.
It has very attractive foliage with thick, leathery, lustrous, shiny leaves.

===Culture:===
Warm, sheltered and moist. Suitable even for a warm temperate climate.
It is one of the most commonly cultivated ''Chamaedorea'' species and is found in collections and gardens wherever the genus is grown.
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[[File:Chamaedorea_oblongata02.jpg|frame|Figure 2. ''C. oblongata'']]
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[[File:C.oblong_inflor_f.jpg|frame|Figure 3. ''C. oblongata'' female inflorescence.]]
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[[File:C.oblong_inflor_m.jpg|frame|Figure 4. ''C. oblongata'' male inflorescence.]]
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[[File:C.oblongata_fruit.jpg|frame|Figure 5. ''C. oblongata'' infructescence.]]
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===Contributed by: ===
Angelo Porcelli (Figure 1&2)<br/>
Ian Edwards (Figure 3,4&5)


===External Links:===
[https://powo.science.kew.org/results?q=Chamaedorea%20oblongata Kew], 
[https://www.palmweb.org//?q=cdm_dataportal/taxon/b4484918-33e7-4ab6-b834-ae71ce4be6dd PalmWeb],
[https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=Chamaedorea+oblongata JSTOR],
[https://www.trebrown.com/plant_info.php?species=Chamaedorea+oblongata Trebrown]
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[https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Chamaedorea+oblongata%22&amp;num=10&amp;sa=Google+Search Google],
[https://images.google.com/images?q=%22Chamaedorea+oblongata%22&amp;hl=en&amp;btnG=Google+Search GoogleImages],
[https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Chamaedorea+oblongata Flickr],
[https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Chamaedorea+oblongata%22%20site:https://www.palmtalk.org/&amp;sa=Google+Search PalmTalk]
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