51c. Geonoma pohliana subsp. gastoniana (Glaziou ex Drude) Henderson, comb. & stat. nov.

Basionym: Geonoma gastoniana Glaziou ex Drude (1882: 496) . Type: BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro: haut de Tinguá, 7 June

1877, A. Glaziou 9019 (holotype P!, isotypes BR!, C n.v., FI!, K!).

Leaves pinnae 3 per side of rachis. Inflorescences rachillae 19, 0.5 mm in diameter, not hairy, filiform, narrowed between the flower pits; proximal and distal lips drying darker brown than the rachillae; triads mostly spirally arranged.

Distribution and habitat:— At 22°35’S and 43°28’W in the Atlantic Coastal Forest of Brazil in the Serra do Mar in Rio de Janeiro at 900 m elevation in lowland tropical rainforest (Fig. 34).