''Cornus disciflora'' is a species of flowering plant native to Mexico and Central America.

Description

''Cornus disciflora'' is a small to a large tree, growing from 6 to 25 meters tall. It flowers from January to July and September to December, and fruits in March and April and from June to November.

Range and habitat

''Cornus disciflora'' is distributed throughout the mountains of Mexico and Central America, where it is found in the Sierra Madre Occidental,

Sierra Madre Oriental The Sierra Madre Oriental () is a mountain range in northeastern Mexico. The Sierra Madre Oriental is part of the American Cordillera, a chain of mountain ranges (cordillera) that consists of an almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges that f ...

, Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt,

Sierra Madre del Sur The Sierra Madre del Sur is a mountain range in southern Mexico, extending from southern Michoacán east through Guerrero, to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in eastern Oaxaca. Geography The Sierra Madre del Sur joins with the Eje Volcánico Transv ...

, and Chiapas Highlands of Mexico, the

Sierra Madre de Chiapas The Sierra Madre de Chiapas is a major mountain range in Central America. It crosses El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Honduras. The Sierra Madre de Chiapas is part of the American Cordillera, a chain of mountain ranges that consists of an almos ...

of Mexico and Guatemala, the

Chortis Highlands The Chortis Highlands is a highland region in northern Central America, which covers portions of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua.Townsend, J. H. (2014). Characterizing the Chortís Block Biogeographic Province: geological, physiograp ...

of El Salvador, Honduras, and northern Nicaragua, and the

Cordillera de Talamanca The Cordillera de Talamanca is a mountain range that lies in the southeast half of Costa Rica and the far west of Panama. Much of the range and the area around it is included in La Amistad International Park, which also is shared between the two ...

Costa Rica Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the no ...

and western Panama. It is generally found in humid forests, including montane and premontane cloud forests and oak forests, and in wet areas of subhumid montane forests, between 1,000 and 2,900 meters elevation. The fruits are an important food source for birds.

References

{{Taxonbar, from= Q15604299 Trees of Mexico Trees of Central America Flora of the Sierra Madre Occidental Flora of the Sierra Madre Oriental Flora of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca Flora of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt Chiapas Highlands Cloud forest flora of Mexico Flora of the Central American pine–oak forests Flora of the Central American montane forests Sierra Madre de Chiapas Plants described in 1830 discifl