6-505: See text Avoira Giseke Toxophoenix Schott Astrocaryum is a genus of about 36 to 40 species of palms native to Central and South America and Trinidad . Astrocaryum is a genus of spiny palms with pinnately compound leaves–rows of leaflets emerge on either side of the axis of the leaf in a feather-like or fern-like pattern. Some species are single-stemmed, while others grow in multi-stemmed ( caespitose ) clumps. They are pleonanthic—they flower repeatedly over
12-587: A source of palm heart . This Cocoseae article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Paul Dietrich Giseke Paul Dietrich Giseke (8 December 1741 – 26 April 1796) was a German botanist, physician, teacher and librarian. He was born in Hamburg , Germany. Giseke was the son of a Hamburg merchant. He started his studies at the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg. He joined
18-609: The Pará state of Brazil . Astrocaryum mexicanum , a common palm of the Caribbean coast of Central America, is known as warree cohune in Brazil , as its spines are said to resemble the bristles of the white-lipped peccary or warree . The fruit and seeds of several species are used for human food, oil production and fish bait. Leaves are used as a source of fibre and stems as building material. Species are also used medicinally and as
24-673: The University of Göttingen in 1764 and graduated in medicine in 1767. He then went on an extended trip through France and Sweden and met Linnaeus , becoming his student and a lifelong friend - Linnaeus named the genus Gisekia , now in family Gisekiaceae , after him. Giseke made notes of Linnaeus' lectures and published them in 1792 as Praelectiones in Ordines Naturales Plantarum . The book included an illustration "Tabula genealogico-geographica affinitatum plantarum secundum ordines naturales Linnaei" which showed
30-464: The affinities of the families in a form similar to a geographical map. It included circles for families with the size indicating the number of genera contained. Back from his travels, he settled in Hamburg and started practice as a physician, but in December 1771 started teaching as Professor of Physics and Discourse at the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg. He became a librarian at Hamburg from 1784. He
36-536: The course of their lifespan—and monoecious , meaning that there are separate male and female flowers, but individuals plants bear both types of flowers. The type species , Astrocaryum aculeatum , was first described by German botanist Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer in 1818 based on a specimen from the Essequibo River in Guyana . One well known member of the genus is Astrocaryum vulgare , typical in
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