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Cespedesia
Sign in to saveCespedesia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ochnaceae. It contains a single species, Cespedesia spathulata. The common name is Membrillo de Montana. At the top of the trunk and any vertical reiterations is a rosette of long spatulate leaves which are held in a near-vertical posture.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderMalpighiales
- FamilyOchnaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 75
- With media
- 30
- Family
- Ochnaceae
- Collections
- BRIT, NY, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA), UFMT, JBB, UFPR
- Recorded in
- Colombia, Brazil, Brasil, Ecuador, BolíVia, Venezuela, Guyana
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Cespedesia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ochnaceae. It contains a single species, Cespedesia spathulata. The common name is Membrillo de Montana. At the top of the trunk and any vertical reiterations is a rosette of long spatulate leaves which are held in a near-vertical posture.
Its native range is Central and Southern Tropical America.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cespedesia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.