Chrysobalanaceae FAMILY
Couepia macrophylla
Couepia macrophylla
Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Couepia macrophylla is a tree with a flat crown; it can grow up to 20 metres tall. The straight, cylindrical bole can be 25 - 50cm in diameter, and unbranched for more than half its height[ 453 Title Woods of Northeastern Peru Publication Author Williams L. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ Publisher Field Museum Press; Chicago. Year 1936 ISBN Description Gives information on the properties of the wood of well over 1,000 species of woody plants from northeastern Peru. Can be downloaded from the Internet. ]. The tree is harvested from the wild for local use of its wood.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeS. America - Brazil, Peru, Ecuador; C. America - Panama.
HabitatNon flooded forests[ 735 Title Chrysobalanaceae Part 2. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 19: 1-268 Publication Author Prance G.T.; Sothers C.A. Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb Publisher Australian Biological Resources Study; Canberra. Year 2003 ISBN 0 642 56833 2 Description 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. ].