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HERS. HORT. EDINB,
Aepiclosperma cruentum Woodson
PetZAGooduin QVM 208
Flora of Belize
Darwin Initiative Project - Developing Integrated Assessment of
Biodiversity in Secondary Forest in Belize
Apocynaceae
Aspidosperma megalocarpon Mull. Arg.
Det by Z.A.Goodwin on Sep 07
Belize: Stann Creek District, Cockscomb Basin Wildlife
Sanctuary, 400 m S of Victoria Peak trail at 14 km Marker, plot
51,
16° 47° 36" N 88° 33’ 22.9" W (WGS84)
Tropical evergreen, broadleaf, moist, lowland forest, canopy ~20
m dominated by Zanthoxylum sp, Spondias radlkoferi & Virola
koschnyi, understory of numerous ferns & Araceae epiphytes.
Altitude: ~150m
Valley floor near river (within 100 m); thick leaf litter & dark soil:
granite bedrock. !
4 m sapling, copious pink sap from leaves & stem, distinctive
myristicaceous branching.
Goodwin, Zoé Africa 720 14
with R. Akers May 2007
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN
EDINBURGH
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