Bactris aubletiana is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It is a shrub with ten or eleven leaves, and round orange fruits. The species is native to French Guiana and Suriname, and was described in 1876.
Taxonomy The species was described by James W. H. Trail in 1876.
Distribution Bactris aubletiana is native to the wet tropical biome of French Guiana and Suriname. It grows in lowland forests, at elevations of .
Description Bactris aubletiana is a shrub. The stems are tall, and wide.
The plant has ten or eleven leaves, which rarely have black spines. The leaves are long, wide, and sometimes have soft spines on the edges. The leaf stems are long.
The flower stems are long, curved, and spiny. The male flowers are deciduous, up to long. The male flowers have long petals, sepal lobes that are around long, and six stamens. The female flowers are up to long, and have a cup-shaped, long calyx. The corolla of female flowers is long, tube-shaped, and sometimes spiny. The plant flowers from December to April.
The fruits are round, wide, and orange when mature. The mesocarp is starchy, and the endocarp is turbinate. The plant fruits from April to November.
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