Collection Details
Species: Bertholletia excelsa (Bonpl.) Miers
Collection Date: 31 August 1985
Determined By: M. N. Oppel
Determination Date: 24 April 2007
Institution: BRIT
Locality
Continent: South America
Country: Bolivia
Region: Pando
Subregion: Manuripi
Locality Description: Province/State/Territory:Pando
District/County/Shire:Manuripi
Precise location:Along Rio Madre de Dios, 2 km W of Humaita.
DD Latitude: -12.0167
DD Longitude: -68.2833
Min. Elevation: 150 m
Habitat
Habitat Description: Habit:Tree. cut (illegally) to clear a "chacra," 40 m tall (measured), 1 m in diam., with straight trunk from ground to 26 m at first branches.
Habitat:Nearly flat, non-inundated upland evergreen forest.
Habitat: Terrestrial
Botanical Data
Plant Notes: Bertholletia excelsa Bonpl.
M. Nee 31696
NYBG IRN:246,442
NYBG Barcode:235,273
Bark thick, brown, fissured, exuding a red gum. Immature fruit brown, the shell woody, very hard, the outside with sticky sap; immature nuts golden-brown, the meat white, tender and with a good, light taste, said to be preferred to the mature nuts but difficult to obtain; seed embedded in hard yellow flesh.
Vegetation:Dominated by scattered emergent Bertholletia excelsa.
Reproductive States:Sterile/Fruit(2 duplicates)
Sterile
Fertile: fruits: mature fruits
Habit: Tree
Other Data
Project: Lecythidaceae - Scott Mori