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Posoqueria latifolia

Synonyms: Solena latifolia (homotypic); Tocoyena latifolia

Wikipedia Abstract

Posoqueria latifolia, needle flower, is a tree species in the Rubiaceae family whose range stretches from southern Mexico to the Amazon Jungle in South America. It also goes by the name Boca de Vieja (mouth of the old lady) and its fruit is known as monkey apple.
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Infraspecies

Posoqueria latifolia gracilis
Posoqueria latifolia latifolia

Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Specific Gravity [2]  0.57
Structure [1]  Tree

Protected Areas

Predators

Ateles geoffroyi (Central American spider monkey)[3]
Brotogeris tirica (Plain Parakeet)[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2Jérôme Chave, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Timothy R. Baker, Tomás A. Easdale, Hans ter Steege, Campbell O. Webb, 2006. Regional and phylogenetic variation of wood density across 2,456 neotropical tree species. Ecological Applications 16(6), 2356 - 2367
♦ 3The sugar composition of fruits in the diet of spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) in tropical humid forest in Costa Rica, Pablo Riba-Hernández, Kathryn E. Stoner and Peter W. Lucas, Journal of Tropical Ecology (2003) 19:709–716
♦ 4DIET AND FLOCK SIZE OF SYMPATRIC PARROTS IN THE ATLANTIC FOREST OF BRAZIL, Marco Aurélio Pizo, Isaac Simāo & Mauro Galetti, ORNITOLOGIA NEOTROPICAL 6: 87-95, 1995
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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