Bertholletia excelsa Bonpl.

  • Filed As

    Lecythidaceae
    Bertholletia excelsa Bonpl.

  • Collector(s)

    M. H. Nee 31696, 31 Aug 1985

  • Location

    Bolivia. Pando. Manuripi Prov. Along Rio Madre de Dios, 2 km W of Humaita.

  • Habitat

    Nearly flat, non-inundated uplant evergreen forest dominated by scattered emergent Bertholletia excelsa.

  • Description

    Tree. cut (illegally) to clear a "chacra," 40 m tall (measured), 1 m in diam., with straight trunk from ground to 26 m at first branches. Wood light brown; bark thick, brown, fissured, exuding a red gum. Immature fruit brown, the shell woody, very hard, the outside with sticky sap; immataure nuts golden-brown, the meat white, tender and with a good, light taste, said to be preferred to the mature nuts but difficult to obtain; seed embedded in hard yellow flesh. Phenology of specimen: Fruit.

  • Notes (shown on label)

    Voucher for wood specimen, MADw 42749. Tree cut (illegally) to clear a "chacra."

  • Specimen Notes

    herbarium sheet (235273)

  • Identifiers

    NY Barcode: 229709

    Occurrence ID: df20a6c2-24d7-4d00-8ef0-58d6ecc347da

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  • Kingdom

    Plantae

  • Division

    Magnoliophyta

  • Order

    Ericales

  • Family

    Lecythidaceae

  • All Determinations

    Bertholletia excelsa Bonpl. det M. H. Nee, 1985

  • Region

    South America

  • Country

    Bolivia

  • State/Province

    Pando

  • County/Municipio

    Manuripi Prov.

  • Locality

    Along Rio Madre de Dios, 2 km W of Humaita.

  • Elevation

    Alt. 150 m. (492 ft.)

  • Coordinates

    -12.02, -68.28

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