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HERB. HORT. EDINB.
ROYAL
BOTANIC
Lotistema rei otum
(P5 Beqius) ai
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ZAGcodwin —-22. XI L017
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh MSc Field
Course 2013
Myrsinaceae
Myrsinaceae
Belize
District: Cayo
Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve; Baldy Beacon; SSE of summit, ~
50 m W of helicopter landing site.
Submontane savanna; on the edge of the scrub with Quercus oleoides.
Scrub containing trees to 7 m, 20 cm DBH of Clusiaceae,
Melastomataceae, Araceae, Byrsonima crassifolia, Myrica cerifera,
Alcornia latifolia, and Clethra sp.. Soil: gray clay with leaf litter.
17°47'22"N, 88°47'22"W
Alt: 970 m
Tree to 6m high. Bark light grey-brown; mucilaginous and yellow when
freshly cut, oxidising to dark orange within 1 minute. Leaves light green
above, darker beneath, new shoots green, swollen flexed petiole. Lime
green fruits growing at nodes. |
Moonlight, Peter Watson No. 5
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN With: Cayetano, Denver Thomas; Villanueva-Almanza, Lorena; Shibata,
EDINBURGH Atsuko; Culverhouse, Francesca & Coleman, Max
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