Chamaedorea cataractarum
A clumping, trunkless palm of riverbanks and waterfalls in the rainforests of southern Mexico, known in cultivation as the cat palm. It grows where its roots stay wet and floods often cover it, so it wants constant moisture, shade to bright filtered light and warm, humid air.
Where it grows wild
A rheophyte of stream and river margins in lowland and foothill rainforest. It grows on banks, rocks and gravel bars that floods regularly cover, shaded by the riverside forest.
Mostly lowland, from about 10 m to a few hundred metres (median about 320 m), with occasional records near 1,900 m.
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