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Horsfieldia sylvestris is a species of flowering plant in the family Myristicaceae. It is a tree native to the Maluku Islands and New Guinea.
The species was first described as Myristica sylvestris by Martinus Houttuyn in 1774. In 1897 Otto Warburg placed the species in genus Horsfieldia as H. sylvestris.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Horsfieldia sylvestris 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.
