Hevea

  • Authority

    Maguire, Bassett. 1967. The botany of the Guayana Highland--Part VII. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 17: 1-439.

  • Family

    Euphorbiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Hevea

  • Description

    Distribution and Ecology - Hevea is largely confined to the Amazon Basin (Hylaea), with slight northern extensions into the Upper Orinoco and Casiquiare basins and into British Guiana. The northernmost occurrence is at Rio Sipapo, Terr. Amazonas, 5° northern latitude and Sierra Ichun, Bolivar, Venezuela, 4°46' northern latitude.

  • Discussion

    Type. H. guyanensis Aublet, Hist. Pl. Guiane 2: 871. 1775.

    The concepts of species adapted here are those of Ducke, originally published in Archivos do Inst. Biol. Vegetal 2: 217-246. pl. 1-3. 1935, and later published as a somewhat revised separate: Revision of the Genus Hevea, 32 p, 1939.

  • Distribution

    Hevea is largely confined to the Amazon Basin (Hylaea), with slight northern extensions into the Upper Orinoco and Casiquiare basins and into British Guiana. The northernmost occurrence is at Rio Sipapo, Terr. Amazonas, 5° northern latitude and Sierra Ichun, Bolivar, Venezuela, 4°46' northern latitude.

    Guyana South America| Venezuela South America|