Leopoldinia piassaba

taxobox
name = Para piassava
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Monocots
unranked_ordo = Commelinids
ordo = Arecales
familia = Arecaceae
genus = "Leopoldinia"
species = "L. piassaba"
binomial = "Leopoldinia piassaba"
binomial_authority = Wallace|

"Leopoldinia piassaba" (Para piassava, Piassava fiber palm, 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.

References

*Schultes, Richard E. (1974). "Palms and religion in the northwest Amazon." Principes 18 (1): 3-21. "Astrocaryum vulgare", "Bactris gasipaes", "Euterpe oleracea", "E. precatoria", "Leopoldinia piassaba", "Maximiliana martiana", "Oenocarpus bacaba", "Socratea exorrhiza"
*pt icon Rocha, Dayse da Silva; Santos, Carolina Magalhães dos; Cunha, Vanda; Jurberg, José; Galvão, Cleber. " [http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0074-02762004000600010&script=sci_arttext Life cycle of Rhodnius brethesi Matta, 1919 (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae), a potential vector of Chagas disease in the Amazon region.] " (Abstract in English) 2004 October; 99 (6): 591-595.

ee also

*List of plants of Amazon Rainforest vegetation of Brazil

External links

*ITIS|ID=506727
* [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=LEPI11 USDA Plants Profile: "Leopoldinia piassaba"]
*pt icon [http://florabrasiliensis.cria.org.br/search?taxon_id=13817 Flora Brasiliensis: "Leopoldinia piassaba"]