Casearia sylvestris Sw.

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New York Botanical Garden
Plants of BOLIVIA
Casearia sylvestris Sw.
det. M. Nee, 1991
Depto. Santa Cruz, Prov. Ichilo, Parque Naclonal
Amboro. Primary tropical evergreen forest and edges
along Rio Saguayo, 0.5 km. upstream from emergence
from last Andean foothills. Astrocaryum, Iriartea
deltoidea, Socratea exorrhiza, Jacaratia digitata,
0chroma pyramidale, Vernonia megaphylla, Picramnia,
Pouselnia armata, Guadua chacoensis, native stand of
Bactris gassipaes.
17°40IS, 63°43t30nW. alt. 450 m.
Small tree at edge. Flowers yellow-green. Fruit
erect, green, then red.
Coll.: M. Nee 38855
22 Sept. 1990
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