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Sterculia guttata

Synonyms: Astrodendrum malabaricum; Clompanus malabarica; Sterculia alata (heterotypic); Sterculia cuneata (heterotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Sterculia guttata (Spotted Sterculia) is a species of plant in the Sterculiaceae family. Extracts from its seeds have been tested for use as insecticides against mosquito larvae.
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Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Specific Gravity [2]  0.447
Structure [1]  Tree

Predators

Aonidiella orientalis (Oriental Scale)[3]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2Chave 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.
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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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