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Uvaria concava
Uvaria concava, commonly known as calabao, is a plant in the custard apple family Annonaceae that is native throughout tropical Asia, from India to northern Australia. It is a rainforest climber, first described in 1855.
It grows in and near rainforest, monsoon forest and gallery forest up to about 100 m (330 ft) above sea level. In Queensland it occurs on the east coast, from near Cairns to the top of Cape York Peninsula.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Uvaria concava 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.
