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Poulsenia armata

Synonyms: Coussapoa rekoi; Inophloeum armatum (homotypic); Olmedia armata (homotypic); Poulsenia aculeata

Wikipedia Abstract

Poulsenia is a monotypic genus of plants in the family Moraceae, native to rainforests from Mexico south through Venezuela to Bolivia. The only species is Poulsenia armata. Unlike any other Neotropical Moraceae, the leaves and twigs of Poulsenia are covered in small prickles. An additional useful identification characteristic is the distinctive knee-like buttresses of the adult trees.
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Attributes

Janka Hardness [1]  360 lbf (163 kgf) Very Soft
Specific Gravity [2]  0.33

Predators

Alouatta palliata (mantled howler monkey)[3]
Artibeus jamaicensis (Jamaican fruit-eating bat)[4]

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Wood Janka Hardness Scale/Chart J W Morlan's Unique Wood Gifts
♦ 2Wood Technology Transfer Fact Sheets U.S. Department of Agriculture - Forest Service
♦ 3Feeding and General Activity Patterns of a Howler Monkey (Alouatta palliata) Troop Living in a Forest Fragment at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico, Alejandro Estrada, Saúl Juan-Solano, Teresita Ortíz Martínez and Rosamond Coates-Estrada, American Journal of Primatology 48:167-183 (1999)
♦ 4Artibeus jamaicensis, Jorge Ortega and Iván Castro-Arellano, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 662, pp. 1–9 (2001)
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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