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Astrocaryum alatum; photograph author not stated, no rights reserved CC0author not stated, no rights reserved · observed growing wild · 2026-06-02

Astrocaryum alatum H.F.Loomis

Arecaceae · Costa Rica, Honduras +3

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Summary

Astrocaryum alatum is a species of palm with edible nuts, a flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It is a common species found many types of rainforests and swamps in Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Astrocaryum alatum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 261 of the 263 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeCosta Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker10.457, -84.604 · in the densest population, 203 records (77% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 263 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 101 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 32 km away. 7 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 261 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 263 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (2); (c) rowan_m, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Oliver Stringham, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) kdcs, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Florencia Grattarola, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Other Astrocaryum 7 in the reference

Astrocaryum chambira Astrocaryum chambira Arecaceae Photo: CC BY, Joe crutwellAstrocaryum jauari Astrocaryum jauari Arecaceae Photo: CC BY, Juan Manuel Cardona Granda Astrocaryum malybo Arecaceae Astrocaryum mexicanum Astrocaryum mexicanum Arecaceae Photo: CC BY, Jose Manuel Ramos MartinezAstrocaryum murumuru Astrocaryum murumuru Arecaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedAstrocaryum standleyanum Astrocaryum standleyanum Black palm Photo: CC BY, Nathan Van CootenAstrocaryum tucuma Astrocaryum tucuma Tucum palm Photo: CC BY, André Ambrozio

Names & registers

Also known as Hexopetion alatum. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Arecaceae
Described by
H.F.Loomis
Native to
Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua +2
Wild records
263 in range · 101 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 16 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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