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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Chamaedorea
|accepted_authority=Willdenow
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=4(2): 638, 800. 1806
|year=1806
}}
|common_names=Bamboo palm;parlor palm
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Arecaceae;Arecaceae subfam. Ceroxyloideae;Arecaceae tribe Hyophorbeae;Chamaedorea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Arecaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Arecaceae subfam. Ceroxyloideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Arecaceae tribe Hyophorbeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Chamaedorea]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek chamai, on the ground, and dorea, gift, in reference to small, low-growing palms of great beauty
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 113
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>small, usually low-growing, unarmed. <b>Stems</b> clustered [solitary], erect [creeping, lianoid], slender, unarmed. <b>Leaves</b>: sheaths tubular, unarmed, forming crownshaft; blade pinnate [undivided], with leaf segments regularly spaced along unarmed rachis, in 1 plane [many planes]; plication reduplicate; segments linear-lanceolate, apical pair of segments sometimes wider than others. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary below crown of leaves, ascending, with 1 order of branching [spicate or 2 orders]; prophyll small; peduncular bracts 5–6, tubular, papery; rachillae green at anthesis, turning orange in fruit. <b>Flowers</b> unisexual, sessile, staminate and pistillate flowers on different plants. <b>Staminate</b> flowers borne singly, partially sunken into fleshy rachillae; sepals 3, briefly connate at base [distinct]; petals 3, ovate, basally briefly connate [connate by tips]; stamens 6, distinct; anthers dorsifixed; pistillode minute. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers borne singly, slightly sunken into fleshy rachillae; sepals 3, free; petals 3, free, ovate; staminodes 6, minute; pistil 1, 3-loculate; ovules 1 per locule; style indistinct; stigmas minute. <b>Fruits</b> drupes, globose; stigmatic scar basal, exocarp black, smooth; mesocarp thin; endocarp bony. <b>Seeds</b> globose; endosperm homogeneous; embryo subapical; eophyll 2-cleft [pinnate], segments linear. nx = 13.</span><!--

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|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;Central America;and n South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Chamaedorea</i> species are understory palms in Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. Many species are cultivated in North America both as houseplants and, in warm areas, as garden plants.</p><!--
--><p>Species 77–100 or more (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Chamaedorea
|authority=Willdenow
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Arecaceae
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;Central America;and n South America.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1806
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V22/V22_185.xml
|subfamily=Arecaceae subfam. Ceroxyloideae
|tribe=Arecaceae tribe Hyophorbeae
|genus=Chamaedorea
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