Chrysobalanaceae FAMILY

Licania brittoniana

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Licania brittoniana is a tree with a moderately round crown; it can grow up to 32 metres tall. The straight, cylindrical bole has buttresses up to 90cm tall; it can be unbranched for up to 15 metres and around 75cm in diameter[ 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 the timber and resin. The wood is also harvested commercially and exported.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeS. America - northern Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia.

HabitatDense forests that are free from seasonal inundations, at elevations up to 135 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. ]. Non-flooded and periodically flooded forest[ 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. ].