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Schippia concolor

COMMON NAME

Mountain pimento or silver pimeto

TYPE

Palm

FAMILY

Arecaceae

NOTES

The genus Schippia is named in honour of William Schipp, an Australian ‘botanical explorer’ who made many important early collections of the Belizean flora in the 1920’s & 30’s. Schippia concolor exhibit the unusual strategy of transferring all stored resources from the seed to the seedling before any shoot growth occurs. In most plants, the seedling remains attached to the seed, gradually using the stored resources for growth, until those resources are exhausted. At that point, the connection withers, detaching the remains of the seed. It is the sole species in the genus Schippia.

GEOGRAPHIC REGION

Native to Belize and Guatemala

NATIVE HABITAT

Scattered in open and closed dry forest

WEB SOURCES

wikipedia.org

palmpedia.net

monaconatureencyclopedia.com



Schippia concolor