Collection Details

Species: Neea floribunda Poepp. & Endl.

Nyctaginaceae Neea floribunda Poepp. & Endl.
J. P. Janovec , P. Centeno, P. Maceda 2623


Collection Date: 5 November 2001
Determined By: J. P. Janovec
Determination Date: 28 October 2010
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. Between Cocha Llena and the garden. Collected in the garden and then started along trocha Playa.

Locality Site Specific: Trocha Cocha Lobo.

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 20 m. Flowers green-cream, fragrant. White rim around lobes of calyx (corolloid calyx), possibly white glandular hairs. Bark slash tan quickly oxidizing black.

Habit: Tree

Other Data

Research Site: Los Amigos Conservation Concession & Biological Station

Project: Los Amigos Botany