Trees of Cloudbridge
Cytharexylum donnell-smithii (Dama)
Description:
Natural history:
Distribution: Occurs at 1300 – 1600m
How
to recognize: [main features of shape, location, bark, leaves,
flowers and fruit that help with eyeball recognition, and specific
features that help to distinguish this tree from others]
Uses:
Sources and Links:
INBio description
SysTax
and others
Scientific Information:
| Division: |
Magnoliophyta (Flowering plants)
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| Class: |
Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
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| Family: |
Verbenaceae
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| Species: |
Citharexylum donnell-smithii |
Photo
Identification Guide: Cythrexylum
donnell-smithii
(Dama)
| Leaves. Narrowly elliptic, 5 x 15-20 cm long, V-shaped cross-section, glabrous, often toothed in saplings, dioecious. |
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| Flowers. In pendant terminal spikes, very small white 5-lobed, lobed calyx.. |
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Fruit and Seeds. Fruits are round, orange when immature, brown-black when
mature, one-seeded.
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Cloudbridge: Bridging
a Costa Rican cloud forest