Guarea rhopalocarpa

Guarea rhopalocarpa. Family: Meliaceae

Mahogany family!

Leaves: alternate, usually pinnate leaves, with 4-6 pairs of leaflets (and a terminal leaflet)

Large trees 20–45 m tall, with a trunk over 1 m trunk diameter, often buttressed at the base

Guarea rhopalocarpa

Distribution:

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The flowers are in loose inflorescences, each flower small with 405 petals. Flowers apparently bisexual (but actually mostly cryptically unisexual)

Fruit is a 4/5 valved capsule (or nutlet!) that contains several seeds, each surrounded by a fleshy aryl.

Fruits dispersed by parrots and monkeys.

Trunk has large swollen bumps, from which inflorescences and fruit emerge

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