Chrysobalanaceae FAMILY

Licania parvifolia

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Licania parvifolia is an evergreen tree with a dense, wide, low crown; it can grow 5 - 7 metres tall. The lower branches often touch the ground. The short bole is 20 - 30cm in diameter[ 420 Title Brazilian Trees. Volume 2. 4th Edition. Publication Author Lorenzi. H. Publisher Instituto Plantarum De Estudos Da Flora; Brazil. Year 2002 ISBN 85-86714-15-1 Description Information on 350 species of Brazilian trees. Stunning photographs of each species, brief details on the plant, its uses and how to grow it from seed. A superb work, with the minor irritation that the translation from Portuguese is not of the best. ]. The wood is sometimes used locally.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeS. America - Brazil, Bolivia, Venezuela, Guyana.

HabitatForests along rivers, most commonly in secondary formations on level land, also in open areas of low, savannahs, usually found in sandy soils rich in humus[ 420 Title Brazilian Trees. Volume 2. 4th Edition. Publication Author Lorenzi. H. Publisher Instituto Plantarum De Estudos Da Flora; Brazil. Year 2002 ISBN 85-86714-15-1 Description Information on 350 species of Brazilian trees. Stunning photographs of each species, brief details on the plant, its uses and how to grow it from seed. A superb work, with the minor irritation that the translation from Portuguese is not of the best. ]. Open riverine localities, especially river banks and islands[ 734 Title Chrysobalanaceae Part 1. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 9: 1-319 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 56832 4 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. ].