Pouteria elegans (A.DC.) Baehni

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PLANTS OF GUYANE FRANÇAISE
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Sapotaceae 28
Salii: Monts La Fumée, 3°37'N, 53°12'W.
Tropical Moist Forest. ELev. 200-400 m.
Voucher for ecological study: Tree No. 257
The New York Botanical XI
Pouteria engleri Eyma
Det. T.D. Pennington, 1984
Tree 38 m x 100 cm; steep, simple, plank
buttresses (200 cm high x 100 cm wide x 10 cm
thick); trunk cylindrical; outer bark rough,
flaky, greyish-brown; inner bark flesh, 2 mm;
exudate a sticky, white latex.
Boom & S. Mori
Oct 1982
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Field work supported by the National Science Foundation and the Office dc la Recherche Scieniifiquc
’''y et Technique Outre Mer.
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