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ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN
EDINBURGH
E00396214
HERB. HORT. EDINB.
Meee0493
ROYAL
BOTANIC
Flora of Belize
Darwin Initiative Project - Developing Integrated Assessment of
Biodiversity in Secondary Forest in Belize
Chrysobalanaceae
Licania sparsipilis Blake
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Det by R.Akers on Jul 07
Belize: Stann Creek District, Cockscomb Basin Wildlife
Sanctuary, 1km SE from visitors centre, 300m along & 60m off
the Tiger Fern Trail, plot 2.
16° 46° 54.1" N 88° 27° 7.7" W (WGS84)
Tropical evergreen, lowland, seasonal, broadleaf forest:
Yucatan variant, canopy height 17+m, 80% Canopy cover.
Understory is dense layer of Polybotrys caudata, young Attalea
cohune, Costus pulverulentus, Calathea micans, and numerous
Psychotna and Miconia sp.
Altitude: 100m
LL A a aS ELS SE: ee ee
Red clay-based soil in floodplain of tributary to South Stann
Creek, granite bedrock with occasional limestone pockets
Tree 9m tall, 2cm dbh, red swollen glands at base of leaf blade
Goodwin, Zoé Africa 264 04
| h with S. George, N. Mora, I. Chan, Nev 2006
S. Bridgewater & P. Walker
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