Socratea

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Cladus: Commelinids
Ordo: Arecales

Familia: Arecaceae
Subfamilia: Arecoideae
Tribus: Iriarteeae
Genus: Socratea
Species: S. exorrhiza – S. hecatonandra – S. karstenii – S. rostrata – S. salazarii
Source(s) of checklist:
Name

Socratea H.Karst., 1857

Type Species: Iriartea orbigniana Mart. LT designated by Moore, Gentes Herb. 9: 275-285 (1963)

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Metasocratea Dugand, Revista Acad. Colomb. Ci. Exact. 8: 389 (1951)

References

Karsten, G.H., 1857. Linnaea 28: 263

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2018. Socratea in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Dec. 09. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2018. Socratea. Published online. Accessed: Dec. 09 2018.
The Plant List 2013. Socratea in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Dec. 09.
Tropicos.org 2018. Socratea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Dec. 09.

Vernacular names
Deutsch: Stelzenpalmen

Socratea is a genus of five species of palms found in tropical Central America and South America.[1][2][3]

It is commonly believed that Socratea can move away from where it germinated by growing roots on one side and abandoning them on the other. Attempts to detect this behavior have failed.[4]

Socratea exorrhiza (Mart.) H.Wendl. - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, northern and western Brazil (States of Amazonas, Amapá, Mato Grosso, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima)
Socratea hecatonandra (Dugand) R.Bernal - Colombia, Ecuador
Socratea montana R.Bernal & A.J.Hend. - Colombia, Ecuador
Socratea rostrata Burret - Peru, Colombia, Ecuador
Socratea salazarii H.E.Moore - Peru, Bolivia, western Brazil (State of Acre)

References

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.
Henderson, A. 1990. Arecaceae–Part I. Introduction and the Iriarteinae. Flora Neotropica, Monograph 53: 1–100
Can 'Walking Palm Trees' Really Walk? At: Live Science