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Type of: Caryodaphnopsis fosteri van der Werff

Collector Foster, R.
Number 9585
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Country Peru
Subpart Manu
County  
Locality Madre De Dios: Parque Nacional del Manu. Rio Manu: Cocha Cashu Station. Floodplain forest. High mixed forest on old river levee
Coordinates 11° 50' S 71° 25' W
Minimum elevation (m) 350
Maximum elevation (m) 350
Start date 7719/06/00
End date 1984/07/06
Family Lauraceae
Identification Caryodaphnopsis fosteri van der Werff
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Field notes Large tree, 50 m tall, 187 cm diam; bark dark brown, scaly (but smooth on smaller trees); young wood is whitish; leaves opposite, 3 -nerved, pale below, putting out flowers same time as flushing new leaves over most of tree; parts of tree has older leaves with round hard green fruit, 1 cm diam., but most of tree is in flower now; another tree (66 cm in diam.) nearby is flushing new leaves but not flowering, though judging from seedlings below, it has flowered other years; flowers yellow-green, somewhat sweet sticky fragrance, 3 petals, stamens yellow-green; sweet sticky fragrance; trail 3.1. Tree climbed by Alcibiades Valles Torres.

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