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Micropholis guyanensis (wild balata)

Synonyms: Micropholis apiculata; Pouteria rufa; Sideroxylon guyanense (homotypic)

Infraspecies

Micropholis guyanensis duckeana
Micropholis guyanensis guyanensis (Attributes)

Attributes

Janka Hardness [2]  2060 lbf (934 kgf) Hard
Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Specific Gravity [4]  0.783
Structure [1]  Tree

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Manú National Park II 4213523 Cusco, Peru  

Predators

Callithrix kuhlii (Weid's black-tufted-ear marmoset)[5]
Leontopithecus chrysomelas (golden-headed lion tamarin)[6]
Leontopithecus rosalia (golden lion tamarin)[7]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2Wood Janka Hardness Scale/Chart J W Morlan's Unique Wood Gifts
♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 4Wood specific gravity of trees and forest types in the southern Peruvian Amazon, Deborah W. Woodcock, ACTA AMAZONICA 30(4): 589-599. 2000
♦ 5Ecology of Callithrix kuhlii and a Review of Eastern Brazilian Marmosets, Becky E. Raboy & Gustavo R. Canale & James M. Dietz, Int J Primatol (2008) 29:449–467
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7Fruit exploitation by Golden Lion Tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia) in the União Biological Reserve, Rio das Ostras, RJ - Brazil, M.J. Lapenta, P. Procópio de Oliveira, M.C.M. Kierluff and J.C. Motta-Junior, Mammalia. Volume 67, Issue 1, Pages 41–46 (2003)
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0