| Ceroxylon ventricosum | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Arecales |
| Family: | Arecaceae |
| Genus: | Ceroxylon |
| Species: | C. ventricosum |
| Binomial name | |
| Ceroxylon ventricosum Burret 1929 | |
Ceroxylon ventricosum, also known as the Ecuadorian wax palm is a species of Ceroxylon from Colombia and Ecuador. [1]
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Iriartea is a genus in the palm family Arecaceae, native to Central and South America. The best-known species – and probably the only one – is Iriartea deltoidea, which is found from Nicaragua, south into Bolivia and a great portion of Western Amazonian basin. It is the most common tree in many forests in which it occurs.
Aegilops ventricosa is a plant species in the family Poaceae.
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Ceroxylon alpinum, also known as the Andean wax palm is a species of palm tree native to Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Ceroxylon is a genus of flowering plants in the family Arecaceae, native to the Andes in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, known as Andean wax palms.
Ceroxylon amazonicum is a species of palm tree. It is endemic to Ecuador. There are only four known populations. The species is threatened by deforestation.
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Gastridium ventricosum is a species of grass known by the common name nit-grass or nit grass (USA). This is an annual grass bearing a long, thin, smooth inflorescence of spikelets. It is native to Europe, North Africa, and southwestern Asia but has become naturalized in scattered locations elsewhere.
Gastridium is a genus of plants in the grass family. Species of the genus are found in Africa and Eurasia. These grasses are sometimes called nit grass.
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Gloria Amparo Galeano Garcés was a Colombian botanist and agronomist specializing in the palm family. Galeano was a faculty member at the National University of Colombia, and was the director of the Institute of Natural Sciences from 2003 to 2006. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Aarhus, Denmark in 1997.
Ensete ventricosum, commonly known as enset or ensete, Ethiopian banana, Abyssinian banana, pseudo-banana and false banana, is an herbaceous species of flowering plant in the banana family Musaceae. The domesticated form of the plant is cultivated only in Ethiopia, where it provides the staple food for approximately 20 million people. The name Ensete ventricosum was first published in the Kew Bulletin 1947, p. 101. Its synonyms include Musa arnoldiana De Wild., Musa ventricosa Welw. and Musa ensete J. F. Gmelin. In its wild form, it is native to the eastern edge of the Great African Plateau, extending northwards from South Africa through Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to Ethiopia, and west to the Congo, being found in high-rainfall forests on mountains, and along forested ravines and streams.
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Leiobunum ventricosum is a species of harvestman in the family Sclerosomatidae. It is found in North America.
Ceroxylon ceriferum, also known as the Sacred wax palm is a species of Ceroxylon from Colombia and Venezuela.
Ceroxylon parvifrons, also known as the Golden wax palm is a species of Ceroxylon from Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
Ceroxyleae is a tribe of plants in the family Arecaceae. Genera in the tribe are:
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