Iriartella
{{Short description|Genus of palms}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Iriartea setigera, da Coleção Brasiliana Iconográfica.jpg
|image_caption = Iriartella setigera by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
|display_parents = 2
|taxon = Iriartella
|authority = H.Wendl.
|synonyms = Cuatrecasea Dugand
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision = * Iriartella stenocarpa Burret
- Iriartella setigera (Mart.) H.Wendl.
}}
Iriartella is a genus of two species of palms found in northern and northwestern South America (Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, and western Brazil; particularly the Acre, Amazonas, Roraima, and Pará states).[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=102676 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The Nukak people of Colombia use Iriartella setigera to fashion blowguns.
Species
- Iriartella stenocarpa Burret
- Iriartella setigera (Mart.) H.Wendl.
References
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Category:Flora of Southern America
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