Orbignya phalerata

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Synonyms for Orbignya phalerata

tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory

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Another group of species have seeds that are also used to extract oil: Attalea speciosa (coco-palmeira), Attalea compta (indaia), and Attalea eichleri (pindoba).
piacaba, painha, leaf, peduncular bract coco-painha, candoba Attalea speciosa Palm, coco-palmeira, Leaf, fruit (endocarp, Mart.
Other palm products ate harvested from isolated palm individuals surviving in pastures or other deforested areas; examples of these include leaf sheath fibers from Aphandra natalia in Ecuador (Borgtoft Pedersen, 1992), leaf fibers from Astrocaryum malybo, fruits from Attalea butyracea, Ceroxylon spp., and Copernicia tectorum in Colombia (Galeano & Bernal, 2005; Barrera et al., 2007a, b; Bernal et al., 2010), fruits from Attalea speciosa and A.
In some cases harvest is made in the peasant's own property, whereas in other areas, landless peasants harvest palms in private lands with or without permission from the land owners, as is the case with Attalea speciosa (Pinheiro, 2004) and Butia capitata (Carvalho, 2008) in Brazil, and with Astrocaryum malybo, Copernicia tectorum and Attalea butyracea in northern Colombia (Barrera et al., 2007a, b; Bernal et al., 2010).
The first name apparently applied to this species is Attalea speciosa Mart., described from Brazil in 1826, but although there is an indication of type locality in the original description, no specimen was cited as type for this name, so it is a nomen confusum (Glassman, 1999).
microcarpa Accepted pro parte Attalea salazarii Accepted Described as new Attalea salvadorensis Accepted Described as new Attalea seabrensis Accepted Described as new Attalea septuagenata# Accepted Accepted Attalea speciosa Accepted Accepted as Orbignya phalerata Attalea spectabilis Accepted Doubtful Attalea tessmannii# Accepted Accepted Attalea vitrivir Accepted Accepted as Orbignya oleifera Attalea weberbaueri Accepted Accepted Attalea wesselsboerii Accepted Described as new Combined Henderson et taxon list al.
Emergency medicine include some that are derived from palms, especially medicines with stypic properties such as those derived from Attalea speciosa and used by the Apinaye and Guajajara Indians of northeastern Brazil (Balick, 1986).