Oreomunnea pterocarpa Oerst. (1856:34)
Gavilán, Gavilán Blanco
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Oreamunoa pterocarpa (Oerst.) Oerst. in Vidensk. Meddel. Naturhist. Foren. Kjøbenhavn 1870: 167 (1870); Engelhardia pterocarpa (Oerst.) Standl. in Trop. Woods 12: 15 (1927); Engelhardia oreomunnea C.DC. in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 4, 18: 36 (1862); Engelhardia nicaraguensis A.R.Molina in Fieldiana, Bot. 31: 358 (1968)
Conservation Status
Last record: 1846 (Pupilin et al., 2016:273)
Rediscovered in 1914 (Pupilin et al., 2016:273)
IUCN RedList status: Near Threatened
"One of Tonduz's major successes was the rediscovery of Oreomunnea pterocarpa, a giant of Costa Rican forests, first discovered by the Dane, Anders Oersted in 1846, but not recorded again until Tonduz collected this species near Juan Viñas in 1914."
(Pupulin et al., 2016:273)
Distribution
Costa Rica, Mexico & Panama
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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