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Lacunaria crenata

Lacunaria crenata
Photo: SINAC Pérez Greivin, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Quiinaceae (Quiin family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
C. America to N. Brazil
Climate
wet tropical

About

Lacunaria crenata is a species of flowering plant in the family Ochnaceae, native from Central America to Brazil. It was first described by Edmond Tulasne in 1849 as Quiina crenata.

Where it grows

Lacunaria crenata is native to Central America (Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua and Panama) and northern South America (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela).

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lacunaria crenata 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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