Chrysobalanaceae FAMILY
Licania cyathodes
Licania cyathodes
Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Licania cyathodes is a tree growing 8 - 10 metres tall[ 734 Title Chrysobalanaceae Part 1. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 9: 1-319 Publication Author Prance G.T.; Sothers C.A. Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb Publisher Australian Biological Resources Study; Canberra. Year 2003 ISBN 0 642 56832 4 Description An excellent monograph, part of a very ambitious project to catalogue all the plants in the world. It can be downloaded as a PDF file from the Internet. ]. The tree is sometimes harvested from the wild for local medicinal use.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeNorthern S. America - Venezuela, French Guiana, Surinam.
HabitatRiverine forests[ 734 Title Chrysobalanaceae Part 1. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 9: 1-319 Publication Author Prance G.T.; Sothers C.A. Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb Publisher Australian Biological Resources Study; Canberra. Year 2003 ISBN 0 642 56832 4 Description An excellent monograph, part of a very ambitious project to catalogue all the plants in the world. It can be downloaded as a PDF file from the Internet. ].