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Catalog #: 229416

Occurrence ID: a8f5de57-fd57-4174-901d-d0974b686db7

Collector: David A. Neill

Number: 16954

Date: 2009-06-24

Verbatim Date: 24 June 2009

Additional Collectors: David Neill & Camilo Kajekai

Locality: Ecuador, Zamora Chinchipe, Paquisha, Cordillera del Cóndor, western slopes. Headwaters of Río Machinaza. "Parcela Emperador", 0.25-hectare forest inventory plot, 1 km southeast of Paquisha Alto military post. Montane cloud forest on hilltop, nearly level ridgeline. Mining concession "Emperador" of Kinross Aurelian Corp.

-3.9183  -78.4942  WGS84

Verbatim Coordinates: 03°55'06"S 078°29'39"W

Elevation: 1920 meters Verbatim Elevation: 1920 m

Description: Large canopy tree 23 m tall, with trunk 47.7 cm DBH. Tree # 311 in Emperador plot. Locally common. Bark light brown, shed in rounded flakes to reveal patches of dark reddish-brown inner bark. Leaves with caducous stipules. Most leaves markedly asymmetrical, auriculate-revolute at base. Flowers 5-merous, ramiflorous, ivory-white at anthesis. Most duplicates of this collection with floral buds only.

Individual Count: 1

Record ID: a8f5de57-fd57-4174-901d-d0974b686db7

For additional information about this specimen, please contact: Diana Fernández, Curator (diana.fernandez@biodiversidad.gob.ec)