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HERB. HORT. EDINB.
MQQQ@589
Flora of Belize
Darwin Initiative Project - Developing Integrated Assessment of
Biodiversity in Secondary Forest in Belize
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Belize: Orange Walk District, Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary,
~5 km SW of Crooked Tree Village, 100 m west of western
y | lagoon, plot 2.
17° 44° 50.5" N 88° 34’ 2.5" W (WGS84)
Tropical, evergreen, broadleaf, seasonal, lowland forest
dominated by Guazuma ulmifolia, Lonchocarpus sp, Sebastiania
tuerckheimiana & Attalea cohune. Dense understory of
Sebastiania tuerckheimiana saplings & Piper jaquemontianum.
Altitude: ~20m
Open canopy 12 m in an area farmed within the last 3
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on limestone bedrock. years
Shrub 2 m, pungent odour to leaves.
Goodwin, Zoé Africa 609
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with I.Chan, R.S.Tillett & E.Tillett ie
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN
EDINBURGH
E00544261
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