Collection Details
Species: Connarus punctatus Planch.
Collection Date: 1 November 2001
Determined By: J. P. Janovec
Determination Date: 8 September 2005
Institution: BRIT
Locality
Continent: South America
Country: Peru
Region: Madre de Díos
Subregion: Manu Province
Closest Town: Puerto Maldonado
Locality Description: Los Amigos Biological Station, Madre de Dios River, ca. 7.0 km upriver from mouth of Río Los Amigos. Around the trail to Cocha Lobo and the old logging road.
Locality Site Specific: Trocha Cocha Lobo - Old Logging Road.
DD Latitude: -12.57
DD Longitude: -70.1
Elevation: 270-270 m
Habitat
Habitat Description: Old growth, lowland tropical to subtropical moist forest, lower terrace, younger floodplain, some areas seasonally inundated.
Soil Description: Soil moist to wet, sandy, alluvial.
Habitat: Terrestrial , Floodplain Forest
Botanical Data
Plant Notes: Tree 4 m. Inflorescence with flower buds white-green to cream. Fruit immature, brown-green, lightly pubescent. Stem and leaves withi rank odor. Small black ants with colony in young stem and base of leaf petiole.
Habit: Tree
Other Data
Research Site: Los Amigos Conservation Concession & Biological Station
Project: Los Amigos Botany