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{{PalmSpeciesHeader}} __NOTOC__ <div class="row"> <div class="small-0 large-5 columns"> [[File:Chamaedorea_pumila.jpg|frame|Figure 1. ''C. pumila'']] </div> <div class="small-0 large-7 columns"> ''Chamaedorea pumila H.Wendl., Gard. Chron., III, 36: 246 (1904).'' ===Homotypic Synonyms:=== ''Nunnezharia pumila'' (H.Wendl.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 731 (1891). ===Heterotypic Synonyms:=== ''Chamaedorea nana'' N.E.Br., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1914: 156 (1914). ''Kinetostigma nanum'' (N.E.Br.) Burret, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 11: 318 (1932). ''Chamaedorea sullivaniorum'' Hodel & N.W.Uhl, Principes 34: 128 (1990). ''Chamaedorea minima'' Hodel, Principes 35: 72 (1991). (Check List Royal Botanic Garden Kew, UK) ===Distribution & Habitat:=== ''C. pumila'' is a very ornamental palm that grows in the cloud forests on the slopes of the mountain ranges of Central America between 300 and 1200 metres. Both the Atlantic slope and in the Pacific slope from Costa Rica to western Colombia. ===Description:=== Solitary trunk, erect or decumbent, with 5 - 10 leaves in crown, height between 0.25 and 0.40 m and 1 - 2 cm in diameter. Has entire leaf, deeply bifid distally, with crenate or serrated edges and often have a typical color described as mottled, velvety, glaucescent, or iridescent. The inflorescence is interfoliar. The male are forked or branched clusters, curved or extended from 5 to 15 cm long, cream to yellow-green. The female are spindly or forked between 4 and 17 cm long, recurved, greenish. The fruits are smooth, globose, 0.5 - 0.9 mm in diameter and black when ripe ===Cultivation:=== Shady, warm and moist. </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="small-0 large-6 columns"> [[File:Chamaedorea_pumila02.jpg|frame|Figure 2. ''C. pumila'']] </div> <div class="small-0 large-6 columns"> [[File:Chamaedorea_pumila03.jpg|frame|Figure 3. ''C. pumila'']] </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="small-0 large-6 columns"> [[File:Chamaedorea_pumila04.jpg|frame|Figure 4. ''C. pumila'']] </div> <div class="small-0 large-6 columns"> [[File:Chamaedorea_pumila05.jpg|frame|Figure 5. ''C. pumila'' infructescence.]] </div> </div> ===Contributed by: === Zulli Franceschi, Panama city (Figure 1,2,3,4&5)<br/> Jose Grassia '''Palms in Resistencia City''' ===External Links:=== [https://powo.science.kew.org/results?q=Chamaedorea%20pumila Kew], [https://www.palmweb.org//?q=cdm_dataportal/taxon/412ca3af-3f2c-489f-8e2d-30fd1a47630c PalmWeb], [https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=Chamaedorea+pumila JSTOR], [https://www.trebrown.com/plant_info.php?species=Chamaedorea+pumila Trebrown] </p> [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Chamaedorea+pumila%22&num=10&sa=Google+Search Google], [https://images.google.com/images?q=%22Chamaedorea+pumila%22&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search GoogleImages], [https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Chamaedorea+pumila Flickr], [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Chamaedorea+pumila%22%20site:https://www.palmtalk.org/&sa=Google+Search PalmTalk] <p> [[Category:Chamaedorea|pumila]] [[Category:Palm|Chamaedorea_pumila]]
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