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Aiouea dubia

Family
Lauraceae (Laurel family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Colombia to Peru and NW. Venezuela
Climate
wet tropical

About

Aiouea dubia is a species of tree in the family Lauraceae. It is native to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and northwestern Venezuela in tropical South America. It is a small tree which grows up to 10 metres tall. It grows in Andean foothill and montane tropical moist forest, on slopes along streams, from 500 to 2,800 metres elevation.

The species was first described as Cryptocarya dubia by Carl Sigismund Kunth in 1817. In 1889 Carl Christian Mez placed the species in genus Aiouea as A. dubia.

Other Aiouea plants

Aiouea acarodomatifera · Aiouea alainii · Aiouea angulata · Aiouea benthamiana · Aiouea bracteata · Aiouea cinnamomoidea · Aiouea lehmannii · Aiouea macedoana · Laurel Avispillo · Aiouea obscura · Aiouea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aiouea dubia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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