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Litsea monopetala

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Wikipedia Abstract

Litsea monopetala is a plant in the genus Litsea, found in the regions from the Terai to 1450 m, in Shorea robusta forest and tropical evergreen forest in Nepal. Outside Nepal, its range extends from Kumaon to Sikkim, Bangladesh, Burma and southwest China. It grows up to a height of 18 meters with a diameter of 60cm. The density of the wood at 15% moisture is 540 kg/cbm.
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Attributes

Specific Gravity [1]  0.423

Predators

Aulacaspis tubercularis (cinnamomum scale)[2]
Trachypithecus pileatus (capped leaf monkey)[3]

External References

Citations

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1Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366. Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository.
2Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
3Feeding Ecology of Trachypithecus pileatus in India, G. S. Solanki & Awadhesh Kumar & B. K. Sharma, Int J Primatol (2008) 29:173–182
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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