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The most abundant species of palms are Astrocaryum murumuru, Raphia taedigera, Euterpe oleracea, Maximiliana regia, Oenocarpus bacaba, Jessenia bataua, Mauritia flexuosa, Manicaria saccifera, Socratea exorrhiza, and various species of Geonoma.
Marajó varzea 2008
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Palms constitute much of the understorey, including paramacca (Astrocaryum), kumbumacca (Oenoecarpus bacaba) and maripa (Maximiliana maripa), with ferns and moss-ferns found on the forest floor.
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On the open pastures were occasional trees, usually slender bacaba palms, with heads which the winds had dishevelled until they looked like mops.
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There were many palms, both the burity with its stiff fronds like enormous fans, and a handsome species of bacaba, with very long, gracefully curving fronds.
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There were many palms, both the burity with its stiff fronds like enormous fans, and a handsome species of bacaba, with very long, gracefully curving fronds.
Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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On the open pastures were occasional trees, usually slender bacaba palms, with heads which the winds had dishevelled until they looked like mops.
Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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The most remarkable place in this Captainrick, is the town and re - public of St. Paul, which lies about ten leagues north of Santos, in the interior, and is surrounded by high and inaccessible mountains, and by the impregnable forest of Perna "bacaba.
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