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Internal ID UUID644046a94dec9260385999
Scientific name Xylopia polyantha
Authority R.E.Fr.
First published in Acta Horti Berg. 12: 208 (1934)

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Xylopia polyantha is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family native to Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It is a tree reaching 15–18 meters in height and 20–25 centimeters in diameter with papery, lance-shaped to elliptical leaves. The flowers have 3 oval to triangular sepals and 6 fleshy, yellowish petals arranged in two rows of 3. The fruit occur in clusters of 5–10 and typically have 1–3 seeds with an aril covering the base of the seed. It has been observed growing in clay soils, in secondary forests at elevations of up to 900 meters and has been recorded as being used in Bolivia for making ropes and in roofing thatch.

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Xylopia polyantha var. longesericea R.E.Fr. Acta Horti Berg. 12: 276 (1937)

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  • Southern America
    • Brazil
      • Brazil North
      • Brazil West-central
    • Western South America
      • Bolivia
      • Colombia
      • Ecuador
      • Peru

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World Flora Online wfo-0001065754
Tropicos 1600520
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:269821-2
The Plant List tro-1600520
Open Tree Of Life 3868084
NCBI Taxonomy 2031188
IUCN Red List 148757158
IPNI 269821-2
GBIF 3157090
EOL 1054198
Wikipedia Xylopia_polyantha

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Traditional knowledge hiding in plain sight – twenty-first century ethnobotany of the Chácobo in Beni, Bolivia Paniagua Zambrana NY, Bussmann RW, Hart RE, Moya Huanca AL, Ortiz Soria G, Ortiz Vaca M, Ortiz Álvarez D, Soria Morán J, Soria Morán M, Chávez S, Chávez Moreno B, Chávez Moreno G, Roca O, Siripi E J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 10-Oct-2017
PMCID:PMC5634836
doi:10.1186/s13002-017-0179-2
PMID:29017576

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