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Lucuma Capacifolia
''Lucuma capacifolia'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is a tree Endemism, endemic to northwestern Ecuador, where it is known as ''mamey''. It is native to the provinces of Esmeraldas Province, Esmeraldas, Manabí Province, Manabí, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas Province, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, and Pichincha Province, Pichincha, where it grows in lowland and foothill Western Ecuador moist forests, evergreen tropical moist forest from 80 to 920 meters elevation. It threatened by habitat loss from the deforestation and conversion to agriculture of its native forests. It has an estimated extent of occurrence (EOO) of 9,949 km2, and an area of occupancy of 72 km2, and its remaining populations are often small and fragmented. The species is assessed as endangered species, endangered by the IUCN. References Lucuma, capacifolia Endemic flora of Ecuador Plants described in 1977 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plants Of The World Online
Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online taxonomic database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. History Following the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew launched Plants of the World Online in March 2017 with the goal of creating an exhaustive online database of all seed-bearing plants worldwide. (Govaerts wrongly speaks of "Convention for Botanical Diversity (CBD)). The initial focus was on tropical African flora, particularly flora ''Zambesiaca'', flora of West and East Tropical Africa. Since March 2024, the website has displayed AI-generated predictions of the extinction risk for each plant. Description The database uses the same taxonomical source as the International Plant Names Index, which is the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP). The database contains information on the world's flora gathered from 250 years of botanical research. It aims to make available data from projects that no longer have an online ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |