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Aspidosperma macrocarpon - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Botanical Garden, Brasilia, DF, Brazil; 4/2005 © Sonja Germer

Aspidosperma macrocarpon - Leaf - Click to enlarge!

Leaf; Botanical Garden, Brasilia, DF, Brazil; 4/2005 © Sonja Germer

Aspidosperma macrocarpon - Bark - Click to enlarge!

Bark; Botanical Garden, Brasilia, DF, Brazil; 4/2005 © Sonja Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 140
Date of entry: 16.11.2005
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

Portuguese: Peroba-do-cerrado

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Gentianales (113)

        Family: Apocynaceae (37)(family description)

          Genus: Aspidosperma (2)

            Epithet: macrocarpon Mart. (2)

macrocarpon => bearing large fruit

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: xerophytic

Habit: tree

External links

Check for Aspidosperma macrocarpon at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

Literature

  • [23] Lorenzi,H. (2002): Brazilian trees: A guide to the identification and cultivation of Brazilian native trees. Plantarum, Nova Odessa, São Paulo, Brazil.

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