''Hortia superba'' is a mid-story rainforest tree in the Citrus, or Rue, family (

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). It is native to the

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, where it grows on dry to seasonally inundated soils.

Description

The tree grows to between in height by about thick. It is unbranched or rarely branched; the branches being vertical or nearly vertical (reiterations), the trunk and each reiteration topped by a cluster of large leaves typically long, occasionally to long, by wide. The inflorescence is a terminal

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up to diameter. The fruit is an obovoid berry up to long and diameter containing several seeds.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15393372 Zanthoxyloideae Taxa named by Adolpho Ducke