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Figure 1. *B. acanthocarpa* in habitat, Recife, Brazil.

Distribution & Habitat:[edit]

Widely distributed in Amazon wet rainforest.

Description:[edit]

Small spiny clustering palm, with trunks up to 2 m tall, leaves 3.5-4 m long, altho only spiny along the base of the petiole. Fruit starts out green but becomes red.

Culture:[edit]

Warm, sheltered and moist.

Figure 2. *B. acanthocarpa* in Atlantic Jungle area of Paraba State, Brazil

Figure 3. *B. acanthocarpa* trunk close-up

Contributed by:[edit]

Jose Augusto de Almeida (Figure 2&3)
Gileno Machado (Figure 1)

External Links:[edit]

Kew, PalmWeb, JSTOR, Trebrown

Google, GoogleImages, Flickr, PalmTalk

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 ===Contributed by: ===
-Jose Augusto de Almeida (Figure 1&2)<br/>
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-Gileno Machado (Figure 3)<br/>
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 ===External Links:===
-<p>[https://www.kew.org/wcsp/qsearch.do?plantName=Bactris+acanthocarpa&amp;page=quickSearch Kew],
+[https://powo.science.kew.org/results?q=Bactris%20acanthocarpa Kew],
 [https://www.palmweb.org//?q=cdm_dataportal/taxon/31697918-67d1-483e-bccd-8137d8099149 PalmWeb],
 [https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=Bactris+acanthocarpa JSTOR],
 [https://www.trebrown.com/plant_info.php?species=Bactris+acanthocarpa Trebrown]
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 [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Bactris+acanthocarpa%22&amp;num=10&amp;sa=Google+Search Google],
 [https://images.google.com/images?q=%22Bactris+acanthocarpa%22&amp;hl=en&amp;btnG=Google+Search GoogleImages],
 [https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Bactris+acanthocarpa Flickr],
 [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Bactris+acanthocarpa%22%20site:https://www.palmtalk.org/&amp;sa=Google+Search PalmTalk]
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 [[Category:Bactris|acanthocarpa]]
 [[Category:Palm|Bactris_acanthocarpa]]