Gaussia attenuata

taxobox
name = Gaussia attenuata
status = VU
status_system = IUCN2.3
status_ref = IUCN2007|assessors=Henderson, A. |year=1998 |id=38570 |title= Gaussia attenuata |downloaded=November 16, 2007 ]
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Monocots
unranked_ordo = Commelinids
ordo = Arecales
familia = Arecaceae
genus = "Gaussia"
species = "G. attenuata"
binomial = "Gaussia attenuata"
binomial_authority = (O.F.Cook) Becc.|

"Gaussia attenuata" (palma de sierra)cite book |last=Henderson |first=Andrew |authorlink= Andrew Henderson |coauthors=Gloria Galeano; Rodrigo Bernal|title=Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas |year=1995 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, New Jersey| isbn= 0-691-08537-4 ] is a palm which is native to the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.cite web |url=http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/wcsp/namedetail.do?accepted_id=88904&repSynonym_id=4019&name_id=88904&status=true |title= "Gaussia attenuata"|accessdate=2006-12-08 |format= |work= Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families] The species grows on steep-sided limestone hills (known as mogotes) in Puerto Rico.

"Gaussia attenuata" trees are up to 15 metres tall with grey stems which are swollen at the base and tapering above. Stems are 15 to 25 centimetres in diameter. Trees have five to seven pinnately compound leaves. Fruit are orange-red, 1.4 to 1.6 cm long and 1.2 cm in diameter, with one to three seeds.

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