Bactris syagroides is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It is a shrub with five to eight leaves and yellow-orange fruits. The species is native to Brazil, and was described in 1877.
Taxonomy The species was described by James W. H. Trail in 1877.
Distribution Bactris syagroides is native to the wet tropical biome of northern Brazil (Amazonas and Pará). It grows in lowland rainforests.
Description Bactris syagroides is a shrub. It grows high, and wide. The stems lack spines, and are covered in decaying leaf bases.
The plant has five to eight leaves, with scattered black spines that grow up to long. The leaf stems are long. The leaves are compound, and have thirty to thirty-eight regularly arranged pinnae on each side.
The flower stems are spiny, and up to long. The male flowers are long, and have four to six stamens. The sepal lobes are long. The female flowers are long. The calyx is cup-shaped, and long. The corolla is tube-shaped, and long.
The fruits are round, yellow-orange, and in diameter. The mesocarp is starchy. The endocarp is pitted and obovoid.
Etymology Bactris syagroides is named for its resemblance to Syagrus cocoides.
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