Chrysobalanaceae FAMILY

Couepia williamsii

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Couepia williamsii is a small tree with an open crown; it can grow up to 6 metres tall. The slender bole is straight and cylindrical[ 453 Title Woods of Northeastern Peru Publication Author Williams L. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ Publisher Field Museum Press; Chicago. Year 1936 ISBN Description Gives information on the properties of the wood of well over 1,000 species of woody plants from northeastern Peru. Can be downloaded from the Internet. ]. The wood is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use as fuel[ 453 Title Woods of Northeastern Peru Publication Author Williams L. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ Publisher Field Museum Press; Chicago. Year 1936 ISBN Description Gives information on the properties of the wood of well over 1,000 species of woody plants from northeastern Peru. Can be downloaded from the Internet. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeS. America - Brazil, Peru, Colombia.

HabitatForest on non-flooded and periodically flooded ground[ 735 Title Chrysobalanaceae Part 2. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 19: 1-268 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 56833 2 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. ].