Sciadodendron excelsum Griseb. (Araliaceae)

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Chavarría, F., Espinoza, R., Masís, A., Guadamuz, A. and Perez, D. 1998. Sciadodendron excelsum (Araliaceae) Species Page, June 15, 1998. Species Home Pages, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica. http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr

Tree 15 m and 0.5 cm DBH.

Flower:

Flowers are cream colored.

View of inflorescence

Fruit:

Leaves:

Bark and wood:

Bark is grey with a fine reticulate pattern.

Whole plant architecture:

Similar species:

Verification:

II.Geographic distribution:

International:

In Costa Rica:

In the Area de Conservación Guanacaste:

Map of macro-habitats of the ACG

III. Natural History:

IV. How to find:

In the Santa Rosa sector, near the Adminastrative area.

Acknowledgments:

This project was carried out by the Area de Conservación Guanacaste/CR, with help from INBio/CR, ICBG from the Foggarty center, NIH/USA and NSF/USA. We would espeicially like to thank Daniel H. Janzen for taxonimic identification of this species.

Thanks to Kate Beattie for helping with the managment of images and translation of this species page.

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