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Gyranthera caribensis
Gyranthera caribensis is a large tree in the tropical rainforests of northern Venezuela, where it is endemic in the Venezuelan Coastal Range. Traditionally placed in the baobab family, which is now a subfamily Bombacoideae of the family Malvaceae. One notable individual called "El Piè Grande" ("Bigfoot"), near Orqueta in Yaracuy State in northern Venezuela, has a height of 63.43 m and a girth of 17.12 m.
The tree was described by the botanist Henri François Pittier in 1921.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gyranthera caribensis 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.
