miriti

Palms exist in both canopy and understorey of all types of forest, the predominant palms in non-flooded areas being Mauritia miriti and M. carana.

Jaú National Park, Brazil 2008

The predominant palms on the non-flooded areas are miriti and carana in the genus Mauritia.

Japurá-Solimoes-Negro moist forests 2008

Palms exist in both canopy and understorey of all types of forest, the predominant palms in non-flooded areas being Mauritia miriti and M. carana.

Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil 2008

In the forest we lived on melastom fruits, medicinal teas brewed from sacha ajo, the garlic vine, and chicha made from the fruits of miriti and other palms.

One River Wade Davis 1996

In the forest we lived on melastom fruits, medicinal teas brewed from sacha ajo, the garlic vine, and chicha made from the fruits of miriti and other palms.

One River Wade Davis 1996

Among the most beautiful is the mauritia, or miriti, with pendent clusters of reddish fruit; its enormous, spreading, fan-like leaves cut into ribbons.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Now appears the miriti, or mauritia -- one of the most beautiful of its tribe, with pendent clusters of glossy fruit, and enormous spreading fan-like leaves cut into ribbons; the jupati, with plume-like leaves forty feet and upwards in length, graceful in the extreme, starting almost from the ground.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Now we pass through a magnificent forest of the beautiful fan-palm -- the miriti -- overshadowing many smaller trees and innumerable shrubs, bearing light conspicuous flowers.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847