Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-633.44.06
Calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana
English: Coligallo palm (Spanish for rooster tail).
Region: Central America, southern Mexico.
Botany: understory palm; habitat tropical rainforests; stemless or short-stemmed; leaves undivided, or pinnate with 3-9 leaflets, the terminal leaflet with a forked apex; monocious; inflorescences upright, hosting a species of mite, Acari; flowers all year round, complete temporal separation of the male and female, pollinated by bats, made of a sweet chewable tissue.
