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Helicostylis tomentosa

Helicostylis tomentosa
Photo: Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil, CC BY 2.0
Family
Moraceae (Fig & mulberry family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Panama to S. Trop. America
Climate
wet tropical

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Helicostylis tomentosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Moraceae. It is a tree native to Panama and to Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, the Guianas, Peru, and Venezuela in tropical South America.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Helicostylis tomentosa 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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