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Liquidambar poilanei

Liquidambar poilanei
Photo: Paris, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, GLB, CC BY 4.0
Family
Altingiaceae (Altingi family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Native range
Vietnam
Climate
wet tropical

About

Liquidambar poilanei is a species of flowering plant in the family Altingiaceae. It is a shrub or tree with dark green, parchment-like leaves, and round seed capsules. The species is native to northern Vietnam.

Liquidambar poilanei was described in 1965, and received its current name in 2013. Only two herbarium specimens are known to exist. The IUCN lists the species as Data Deficient.

Where it grows

Liquidambar poilanei is native to the wet tropical biome of Vietnam. It is endemic to northern Vietnam.

Other Liquidambar plants

Chang’s Sweet Gum · Liquidambar cambodiana · Liquidambar caudata · Mountain Litchi · Liquidambar chingii · Liquidambar excelsa · Formosan Gum · Liquidambar gracilipes · Liquidambar multinervis · Liquidambar obovata · Oriental Sweetgum · Liquidambar siamensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Liquidambar poilanei 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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