Chrysobalanaceae FAMILY
Licania longipetala
Licania longipetala
Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Licania longipetala is a large, evergreen tree. The tree is harvested from the wild for local use of its bark, which is used in making ceramics.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeS. America - northern Brazil, Bolivia, Peru.
HabitatPeriodically flooded rainforest[ 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. ].