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Caryocar brasiliense - Habit - Click to enlarge!

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

Caryocar brasiliense - Leaf - Click to enlarge!

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

Caryocar brasiliense - Branch - Click to enlarge!

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

Dataset

Identifier: 77
Date of entry: 16.11.2005
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Pequi

Portuguese: Pequi

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2713)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2628)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2216)

      Order: Theales (6)

        Family: Caryocaraceae (1)(family description)

          Genus: Caryocar (1)

            Epithet: brasiliense Cambess. (1)

brasiliense => of Brazilian origin

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: tree

Flower colour: yellow, beige

External links

Check for Caryocar brasiliense 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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