These spiny seed cases are known as Monkey Combs or in Spanish as Peine de Mono (or Mico).  Widespread in the Neotropics.  Photo from Barro Colorado Island, Panama.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/92252798@N07">Dick Culbert</a> from Gibsons, B.C., Canada
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