Symphonia globulifera

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• Description
• Taxonomy
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Overview

Interesting Facts

Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,936 meters (0 to 16,194 feet).[1]

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Symphonia

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Further Reading

• 1997 IUCN red list of threatened plants Cambridge: IUCN, World Conservation Union, 1998 url p. 299.
• A century of trees of Panama / described by H. Pittier and C.D. Mell. [1931?] url p. 168, p. 94.
• A dictionary of English names of plants applied in England and among English-speaking people to cultivated and wild plants, trees, and shrubs, by William Miller; in two parts, English-Latin and Latin-English. London, J. Murray, 1884. url p. 220.
• A global directory of tropical montane cloud forests. Draft WCMC url p. 61.
• A provisional list of the indigenous and naturalized flowering plants of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica, Aston W. Gardner & Co., 1893. url .
• A study of some characteristics of vegetable oils, by James B. McNair. 9 1930 Chicago, 1930. url p. 62.
• A year of Costa Rican natural history, by Amelia Smith Calvert. .. and Philip Powell Calvert. .. with maps and illustrations. New York, The Macmillan company, 1917. url p. 546.
• An enumeration of the vascular plants known from Surinam: together with their distribution and synonymy / by A. Pulle. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1906. url p. 308, p. 504, p. 551.
• Biologia centrali-americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. London, Pub. for the editors by R. H. Porter and Dulau & co., 1879-88. url .
• Botanical Museum leaflets, Harvard University. 17 1955-1957 Cambridge, Mass.: Botanical Museum, Harvard University, 1932- url p. 19, p. 234, p. 26, p. 269.
• Bulletin of miscellaneous information /Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1911 London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1900-1941. url p. 183.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: The Museum, 1951-1992. url p. 349.
• Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden. 4 1905-1907 Lancaster, Pa.: Published for the Garden by the New Era Printing Co., url p. 327.
• Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 16 1889 New York: Torrey Botanical Club, 1870-1996 url p. 63.
• Catalogue of the African plants London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1896-1901. url , .
• Catalogue of the African plants collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853-61. .. London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1896-1901. url p. 59.
• Catalogue of the products of the Brazilian forests at the International exhibition in Philadelphia, by José de Saldanha da Gama. .. New York, "O Novo mundo" printing office, 1876. url p. 4.
• Contribution to an evaluation of tree species using the new CITES Listing Criteria CITES url p. 77.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 24 1931 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 100, p. 456, p. 487, p. 799, p. 99, p. VIII.
• Contributions to the flora of Venezuela / Julian A. Steyermark and collaborators. 28 1957 Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1957. url p. 1221, p. 985.
• Economic plants. An index to economic products of the vegetable kingdom in Jamaica. Comp. by William Fawcett. .. Jamaica, Govt. Print. Establishment, 1891. url p. 46, p. 54, p. 74.
• Experiment station record. Washington: G.P.O., 1889-1946. url p. 902.
• Fifty years of botany; golden jubilee volume of the Botanical Society of America, edited by William Campbell Steere. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1958. url p. 266.
• Flora of Costa Rica. .. by Paul C. Standley. .. 18 1937 Chicago, 1937. url p. 709.
• Flora of Guatemala / Paul C. Standley and Louis O. Williams. 24 1961 Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1961. url p. 58.
• Flora of Jamaica, containing descriptions of the flowering plants known from the island, by William Fawcett and Alfred Barton Rendle. London.Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1910- url p. 198, p. 9.
• Flora of the Aguan valley and the coastal regions near La Ceiba, Honduras, by T. G. Yuncker. 9 1940 [Chicago]1940. url p. 308.
• Flora of the Lancetilla Valley, Honduras, by Paul C. Standley. 10 1931 Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1931. url p. 287.
• Flora of tropical Africa. By Daniel Oliver. .. assisted by other botanists. London, L. Reeve, 1868-1902. url p. 163.
• Great Basin naturalist memoirs. 1992 [Provo, Utah]Brigham Young University, 1976-1992. url p. 1338, p. 206, p. 207.
• Grisebach, A. H. R. Flora of the British West Indian islands /by A.H.R. Grisebach. [1859]-18 London, L. Reeve, 1864. url p. 774.
• Guide to the Economic Museum of the New York Botanical Garden. New York, 1921. url p. 51.
• IUCN Directory of Afrotropical Protected Areas IUCN, UNEP url p. 1032, p. 896.
• International review of the science and practice of agriculture. Rome: International Institute of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Intelligence and Plant Diseases, 1916-1926. url p. 1117.
• Journal of botany, British and foreign. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1863-1942. url p. 248, p. 361.
• Journal of ethnobiology. 17 1997 Flagstaff, Ariz.: Center for Western Studies, 1981- url p. 183, p. 203.
• Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: The Academy, 1868- url p. 292, p. 294, p. 38.
• Naturalist's guide to the Americas, prepared by the Committee on the Preservation of Natural Conditions of the Ecological Society of America, with assistance from numerous organizations and individuals, assembled and edited by chairman, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1926. url p. 699.
• Novon a journal of botanical nomenclature from the Missouri Botanical Garden. 7 1997 St. Louis, MO: Missouri Botanical Garden, url p. 313.
• Oliver, D. Flora of tropical Africa /by Daniel Oliver. .. assisted by other botanists. 6 1909-1913 London: L. Reeve and co., 1868-1999. url p. 399.
• Phytologia memoirs. Plainfield, N.J.: H.N. Moldenke and A.L. Moldenke, 1980- url p. 198.
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 391, p. 392, p. 393, p. 92.
• Pre-project study on the conservation status of tropical timbers in trade. Final report to International Tropical Timber Organization. Vol 1 ITTO url p. 104, p. 44, p. 87.
• Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Boston: Metcalf and Co., 1846-1958 url p. 459, p. 572.
• Rendle, A. B., E. G. Baker, S. le M. Moore & H. F. Wernham Catalogue of the plants collected by Mr. & Mrs. P.A. Talbotin the Oban district, South Nigeria, by A. B. Rendle, E.G. Baker, and H.F. Wernham, S. Moore, and others. With seventeen plates. 1913 London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1913. url p. 122.
• Sketch of the forestry of West Africa with particular reference to its present principal commercial products. London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887. url .
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 78 1927 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 22.
• The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 558.
• The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: the Americas IUCN url p. 279.
• The Ecology of arboreal folivores: a symposium held at the Conservation and Research Center, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, May 29-31, 1975 / Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978. url p. 412, p. 413, p. 414, p. 420, p. 486, p. 488, p. 499, p. 511, p. 512.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url p. 200.
• The Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany. 37 1904 London: the Society: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green: ||Williams and Norgate, 1865-1968. url p. 536, p. 537, p. 538, p. 573.
• The Last Rain Forests Reed International Books Ltd. url p. 20.
• The colony of British Honduras: its resources and prospects; with particular reference to its indigenous plants and economic productions / by D. Morris. London: Edward Stanford, 1883. url p. 85.
• The flora of Barro Colorado Island, Panama, by Paul C. Standley. City of Washington, The Smithsonian Institution, 1927. url p. 24.
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• The forests and flora of British Honduras / by Paul C. Standley and Samuel J. Record; in cooperation with the Conservator of Forests and the Agricultural Officer of the Colony. 12 1936 Chicago: [Field Museum of Natural History], 1936. url p. 22, p. 23, p. 262, p. 46.
• The natural history of plants. By H. Baillon. Tr. by Marcus M. Hartog. London, L. Reeve & co., 1871-88. url p. 418.
• The natural history of plants. London, L. Reeve & Co., 1871-88. url , .
• The natural history of plants. Translated by Marcus M. Hartog. LondonL. Reeve1871- url p. 419.
• The timbers of British Guiana. A report upon the collection made by A.G. Bell, by Herbert Stone and W.G. Freeman. LondonPublished for the Government of British Guiana by The Crown Agents for the Colonies1914 url p. 62.
• The tropical agriculturist. Colombo, Ceylon: A.M. & J. Ferguson, 1882- url p. 250.
• Through Angola, a coming colony, by Colonel J. C. B. Statham. .. With 138 illustrations, 2 maps and 4 charts. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood & sons, 1922. url p. 343, p. 350.
• Torreya. Burlington, Vt., Torrey Botanical Club, 1901-1945. url p. 271.
• Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. [London]: Published for the Zoological Society of London by Academic Press url p. 16.
• Tree species evaluation using the new CITES Listing Criteria CITES url p. 70.
• West African forests and forestry / London: T.F. Unwin, ltd., [1920] url , .
• West African forests and forestry, by A. Harold Unwin. .. with 110 illustrations by the author. London, T. F. Unwin, ltd.[1920] url p. 363, p. 437, p. 524, p. 88.
• Wissenschaftliche ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Africa-Expedition, 1907-1908: unter Führung Adolf Friedrichs, herzogs zu Mecklenburg. Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1910- url p. 560, p. 630, p. 716.
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• World Mangrove Atlas International Society for Mangrove Ecosystems url p. 118.

Notes

Contributors

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 01, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 15 providers.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 01, 2007:

• Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Biologiezentrum Linz
• Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program
• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
• Herbier de la Guyane, Herbier de la Guyane
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
• , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• SysTax, Herbarium Universitat Ulm
• SysTax, SysTax

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3458149
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13852762
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:429281-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 645706

Footnotes

1. Mean = 318.360 meters (1,044.488 feet), Standard Deviation = 850.110 based on 1,186 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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