Chrysobalanaceae FAMILY
Couepia canomensis
Couepia canomensis
Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Couepia canomensis is a shrub or small tree with a spreading crown, sometimes growing up to 14 metres tall but usually smaller. The straight, cylindrical bole can be 40cm or more in diameter and unbranched for 3 - 7 metres[ 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 sometimes harvested from the wild for its wood, which is used locally.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeS. America - Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana.
HabitatIn primary and secondary forest and clearings on non-flooded ground[ 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. ]. Attains its best development in open dry loam in rough pastures at elevations around 120 metres in Peru[ 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. ].