Label source: Cord of Tucum. The fibre is merely the leaves of the young shoots, torn into shreds, Barra de Rio Negro.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ASource: Spruce, R. (1855) Domestic Uses. Plantae Amazonicae. Domestic uses (pp 31-61) and miscellaneous notes, p 60: Strips of youn, g leaflets woven into hats and mats.