Wettinia longipetala is a species of flowering plant

Flowering plant

The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...

 in the Arecaceae

Arecaceae

Arecaceae or Palmae , are a family of flowering plants, the only family in the monocot order Arecales. There are roughly 202 currently known genera with around 2600 species, most of which are restricted to tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate climates...

 family.
It is found only in Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

, on the outskirts of the amazon rainforest. It is has a conservation status of vulnerable.

Members of the genus Wettinia

Members of the genus Wettinia include W. aequalis, W. aequatorialis, W. anomala, W. augusta, W. castanea, W. cladospadix, W. disticha, W. drudei, W. equalis, W. fascicularis, W. hirsuta, W. illaqueans, W. kalbreyeri (also known as the Macana Palm), W. lanata, W. longipetala, W. maynensis, W. mesocarpa, W. microcarpa, W. minima, W. oxycarpa, W. panamensis, W. poeppigii, W. praemorsa, W. quinaria, W. radiata, W. utilis, W. verruculosa and W. weberbaueri.

Source

• World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Wettinia longipetala. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 July 2007.

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