Mauritia flexuosa
Native Range
Native Continent
Southern America
Southern America
Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela (east), Brazil, Acre, Amazonas, Bahia, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Pará, Piauí, São Paulo, Amapá, Rondônia, Bolivia, Santa Cruz, Colombia (southeast), Ecuador, Peru,Natural Habitat
Riverine swamps. Found in poorly drained or periodically flooded soils. Usually in permanently swampy areas, often forming extensive, high-density stands; also in gallery forests; usually at elevations below 500 metres, occ. to 900 metres.