Characteristics
Monocots
Butia odorata (Barb.Rodr.)Noblick
PINDO PALM; JELLY PALM
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Recent taxonomy suggests B. odorata is the species naturalized in Florida, which has some petioles usually with distinct prickles, globose fruits, small midrib bundles completely encircling the fibrous cylinder, and does not have raphide-containing idioblasts in the foliar margin, unlike B. capitata (Noblick 2011, 2014; Sant’Anna-Santos et. al 2015).
Not Native
Citation
BUTIA ODORATA (Barbosa Rodrigues) Noblick, Palms 55: 48. 2011.
Cocos odorata Barbosa Rodrigues 1891.
BRAZIL: Rio Grande do Sul: Cult. in Rio de Janeiro, without data (lectotype: Barbosa Rodrigues, Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 1: t. 4a. 1891). Lectotypified by Glassman, Revis. Dahlgren's Index 92. 1972.