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Stemonoporus kanneliyensis

Stemonoporus kanneliyensis is a small rainforest tree from the dipterocarp family, known only from southwestern Sri Lanka and listed as Endangered. It is not a plant for home cultivation and is rarely if ever grown outside its native forest.

Family
Dipterocarpaceae (Dipterocarp family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist in cultivation, as it grows in wet tropical rainforest.
Soil
Fertile, humus-rich, well-drained forest soil.
Temperature
22–30 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Sri Lanka
Climate
wet tropical

About

Stemonoporus kanneliyensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a small tree endemic to southwestern Sri Lanka. It is known from a single location in Haycock Biosphere Reserve, where it grows in lowland evergreen rain forest. The IUCN Red List assesses the species as Endangered.

The species was first described by André Joseph Guillaume Henri Kostermans in 1980.

Other Stemonoporus plants

Stemonoporus acuminatus · Stemonoporus affinis · Stemonoporus angustisepalus · Stemonoporus bullatus · Stemonoporus canaliculatus · Stemonoporus ceylanicus · Stemonoporus cordifolius · Stemonoporus elegans · Stemonoporus gardneri · Stemonoporus gilimalensis · Stemonoporus gracilis · Stemonoporus laevifolius

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Stemonoporus kanneliyensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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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