Editing Euterpe oleracea (section)

== Description ==

Stems are cespitose, in clumps of up to about 25, erect or leaning, reaching 3–20 m tall and 7–18 cm in diameter, with a cone of red aerial roots at the base that includes pneumatophores. <sup>[[#cite_note-2|[2]]]</sup> Each stem carries 8–14 pinnate leaves with a 0.6–1.5 m sheath, a petiole 17–50 cm, a rachis 1.5–3.7 m, and 40–80 pendulous leaflets per side; middle pinnae measure 0.6–1.1 m by 2–4.5 cm. <sup>[[#cite_note-2|[2]]]</sup>

Inflorescences are infrafoliar, with a peduncle 5–15 cm and (58–)80–162 rachillae; staminate flowers are 4–5 mm with purple-red petals. <sup>[[#cite_note-2|[2]]]</sup> Fruit is globose to depressed-globose, 1–2 cm in diameter, its minutely tuberculate epicarp purple-black, black or green, over a single seed with deeply ruminate endosperm. <sup>[[#cite_note-2|[2]]]</sup>