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Poulsenia armata (Miq.) Standl.

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Moraceae > Poulsenia

Characteristics

Trees to 25 m. tall, all young parts scatteringly hispid and aculeate to glabrous and smooth. Leaves broadly and rather obliquely oval or elliptic, the tip obtuse or rounded to shortly subcuspidate-acuminate, the base broadly obtuse, 8-40 cm. long, 4-20 cm. broad, entire, subcoriaceous, the petiole 1-3 cm. long; stipules 2-3 cm. long. Staminate heads globose, without an obvious involucre, many-flowered, about 1 cm. in diameter. Pistillate heads subglobose or ovoid, without an obvious involucre, 3-9-flowered, about 1.5 cm. in diameter. Mature fruiting heads unknown to us.
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A tall tree. The bark is dark. Big trees have large buttresses. The trunk is large and branches are near the top. The leaves are large and rounded. They have small sharp spines along the veins underneath. Leaves on young trees are larger. Young trees also have sharp spines on the trunk. Broken parts produce white latex. The flowers are yellow and in small dense clusters. They develop small clusters of fruit.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality monoecy
Pollination -
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Mature height (meter) 22.5
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in moist and wet forest.
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Wet forests, at or a little above sea level.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses fiber material medicinal wood
Edible fruits
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Distribution

Poulsenia armata world distribution map, present in Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Conservation status

Poulsenia armata threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1059330-2
WFO ID wfo-0000474038
COL ID 4M74Y
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 918772
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Synonyms

Olmedia armata Poulsenia armata Coussapoa rekoi Inophloeum armatum Poulsenia aculeata
WorldFloraDB 2024