Dussia

EX HERB. HORT. BOT. REG. EDIN.
FLORA OF COSTA RICA
Dussia
Puntarenas: Osa Peninsula. Canton de Osa. Cerro Chocuaco.
8°45’N, 83°35’W.	550 m alt.
Mixed forest on steep slopes. Red clay soil.
Tree 40 m x 90 cm above narrow buttresses to 4 m. Bark pale
brown, with many lenticels, ca. 2 mm and pale brown in
section; slash 1 cm thick, red-brown streaked with pale brown,
with copious red exudate from the inner layer. Old flowers still
fragrant (10 am), calyx brown, corolla brown-white. Photos
R.T. Pennington, N. Zamora, R. Aguilar 575
2 Feb 1995
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in collaboration with Institute Nacional de
Biodiversidad (INBio).
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