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Copaifera officinalis (Copaiba Balsam; Maracaibo Balsam; copaiba; Amacey; Balsam Copaiba; Copahu Balsam; Copaiva; Jesuit's Balsam; Para Balsam)

Synonyms: Copaiba officinalis (homotypic); Copaifera jacquiniana; Copaifera jacquinii; Copaiva officinalis (homotypic)

Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Specific Gravity [3]  0.6
Structure [2]  Tree

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
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 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
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