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''Mauritiella'' is a dioecious genus of flowering plant in the palm family found in South America where it is commonly called buriti. It is named after the similar and closely related ''Mauritia'' genus.〔(Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families )〕〔Uhl, Natalie W. and Dransfield, John (1987) ''Genera Palmarum - A classification of palms based on the work of Harold E. Moore''. Lawrence, Kansas: Allen Press. ISBN 0-935868-30-5 / ISBN 978-0-935868-30-2〕〔Govaerts, R. & Dransfield, J. (2005). World Checklist of Palms: 1-223. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 〕 Four species are recognized:〔 #''Mauritiella aculeata'' (Kunth) Burret - Venezuela, southeastern Colombia, northwestern Brazil #''Mauritiella armata'' (Mart.) Burret - Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname #''Mauritiella macroclada'' (Burret) Burret - western Ecuador, western Colombia #''Mauritiella pumila'' (Wallace) Burret - southwestern Venezuela, southeastern Colombia ==Description== From 7.5 to 18 m tall, the trunks are clustering and armed with small spines, usually with stilt roots at the base. ''A. aculeata'' tends to be smaller, with trunk diameters around 10 cm, ''M. armata'' and ''M. macroclada'' trunks reach 25 - 30 cm; all three retain persistent leaf bases towards the top of the stem. Each 1 m leaf of a mature tree is palmate with a brief costa, borne on a long petiole, and divided into numerous, deep segments; leaves of juvenile trees are flattened and much less divided. Bright to deep green, the foliage has silvery, glaucous undersides.〔Riffle, Robert L. and Craft, Paul (2003) ''An Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms''. Portland: Timber Press. ISBN 0-88192-558-6 / ISBN 978-0-88192-558-6〕 The inflorescence is usually solitary, interfoliar, with male and female units represented in separate plants. The round fruit is usually one-seeded and covered in red to brown scales with a thick, fleshy mesocarp. The seed is spherical or oblong, basally attached, with an elongated apical knob. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mauritiella」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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