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Alfaroa guatemalensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Juglandaceae. It is a tree native to Guatemala, Honduras, and the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. It grows in cloud forests from 1,200 to 2,200 metres elevation.
The species was first described as Engelhardia guatemalensis by Paul Carpenter Standley in 1940. In 1970 Louis Otho Williams and Antonio Molina placed the species in genus Alfaroa as A. guatemalensis.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Alfaroa guatemalensis 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.
