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Welfia regia

Synonyms: Welfia georgei; Welfia georgii; Welfia microcarpa

Wikipedia Abstract

Welfia is a genus of palms found in Central America (Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua) and northwestern South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru). Only one species is currently recognized, Welfia regia.
View Wikipedia Record: Welfia regia

Attributes

Fruit Conspicuous [1]  No
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Specific Gravity [3]  0.4
Structure [2]  Tree
Height [1]  66 feet (20 m)
Fruit Color [1]  Brown

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Braulio Carrillo National Park II 117843 Costa Rica  
Corcovado National Park 115845 Costa Rica  
Rara Avis Rainforest Reserve 3163 Costa Rica

Predators

Carystoides hondura[4]
Dubiella fiscella[4]
Dulcedo polita[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kissling, W. Daniel et al. (2019), Data from: PalmTraits 1.0, a species-level functional trait database for palms worldwide, v4, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ts45225
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Jérôme 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
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
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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