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Leopoldinia piassaba
About
Leopoldinia piassaba, the Para piassava, piassava fiber palm or piassava palm, is a palm native to black water rivers in Amazonian Brazil and Venezuela, from which is extracted piassava, a high caliber and water resistant fiber. Piassaba fiber is made into brooms, baskets and other products. This plant is also a natural habitat of the Rhodnius brethesi which is a potential vector of Chagas disease and it is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.
- Family
- Arecaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Leopoldinia piassaba
- Slug
- leopoldinia-piassaba
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Arecaceae
- Genus
- Leopoldinia
- Species
- piassaba
- Wikidata QID
- Q6527130
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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