
Chrysobalanaceae FAMILY Least Concern
Licania splendens
Licania splendens
Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Cultivation Details
HabitTree
Growth—
Mostly found in the wild on sandy soils, but sometimes also on clay[1].
Propagation
Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Licania+splendens>
Pollinators
Data unavailable
References
- [1]Plants of Southeast Asia — http://www.asianplant.net/ ↩︎Excellent site with brief information on the plant, its range, habitat and uses, plus phots of specimens, close-ops of flowers and leaves etc,
- [2]IUCN Red List of Threatened Species — http://www.iucnredlist.org/ ↩︎A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat.
- [3]Flora Malesiana Series 1 — Various · Nationaal Herbarium Nederiand, Universiteit Leiden branch · http://www.archive.org ↩︎A massive treatment of the plants of the Malaysian Archipelago. Much of it has been made available to download from the Internet
- [4]Chrysobalanaceae Part 1. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 9: 1-319 — Prance G.T.; Sothers C.A. · Australian Biological Resources Study; Canberra. · 2003 · http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb · ISBN 0 642 56832 4 ↩︎An excellent monograph, part of a very ambitious project to catalogue all the plants in the world. It can be downloaded as a PDF file from the Internet.