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Canarium elegans

Family
Burseraceae (Burser family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Madagascar
Climate
wet tropical

About

Canarium elegans is a species of tree in the family Burseraceae. It is native to Madagascar.

Where it grows

Canarium elegans is native to northeastern Madagascar, from the Masoala Peninsula to Marojejy National Park. It is known from four locations, with an estimated extent of occurrence of 5,197 km2 and an estimated area of occupancy of 24 km2. It inhabits humid evergreen lowland forests, including dense lowland forest, sub-littoral forest, and wet forest on steep slopes, between sea level and 400 meters elevation.

Other Canarium plants

Canarium acutifolium · Chinese white olive · Canarium apertum · Canarium asperum · Brown Cudgerie · Scrub turpentine · Canarium caudatum · Canarium decumanum · Canarium denticulatum · Canarium dichotomum · Canarium divergens · Canarium fuscocalycinum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Canarium elegans 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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