Bactris tefensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It is a shrub with black and brown spines, and orange-red fruits. The species is native to northern Brazil, and was described in 1995.
Taxonomy The species was described by Andrew Henderson in 1995.
Distribution Bactris tefensis is native to the wet tropical biome of Amazonas, Brazil. It grows in rainforests at low elevations.
Description Bactris tefensis is a shrub. The stems are high, wide, and covered in decaying leaf bases.
The plant has four to ten leaves, with scattered black spines up to long. The leaves have nine to thirteen light green pinnae on each side, which are arranged in clusters of two or three. The leaf stems are long.
The inflorescence stem is curved, up to long, and densely covered in spines. The female flowers are up to long. The calyx is cup-shaped, and around long. The corolla is around long, and tube-shaped. Both the calyx and corolla have brown spines, which are bent alternately in different directions.
The fruits are orange-red, around wide, and broadly obovoid. The mesocarp is starchy, and the endocarp is turbinate.
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