Cariniana estrellensis

Cariniana estrellensis is a species of rainforest tree in the family Lecythidaceae. It is native to South America.[1][2][3] These trees can grow to extraordinary size. Perhaps the largest rainforest tree ever measured by college trained forester was a C. estrellensis measured by Edmundo Navarro de Andrade which was twenty-three feet thick (twenty-two meters girth) with no buttresses or basal swelling.[4]

Cariniana estrellensis
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Lecythidaceae
Genus: Cariniana
Species:
C. estrellensis
Binomial name
Cariniana estrellensis
(Raddi) Kuntze
Synonyms
  • Couratari estrellensis Raddi
  • Cariniana excelsa Casar.
  • Cariniana excelsa var. puberula Chodat & Hassl.
  • Couratari glaziovii Glaz.
  • Couratari excelsa Casar.

References
  1. Grandtner, M. M.; Chevrette, Julien (2013). Dictionary of Trees, Volume 2: South America: Nomenclature, Taxonomy and Ecology. Academic Press. p. 102. ISBN 9780123969545.
  2. "Tropicos | Specimen - Gloria Calatayud - 4430". www.tropicos.org. Retrieved 2017-08-09.
  3. "Cariniana estrellensis – Lecythidaceae". sweetgum.nybg.org. Retrieved 2017-08-09.
  4. Navarro de Andrade, Edmundo; Vecchi, Octavio (1916). Les Bois Indigenes de Sao Paulo. Sao Paulo, Brazil: <published privately>. pp. 204–206.


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