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Physocalymma scaberrimum - Habit of young tree - Click to enlarge!

Habit of young tree; Parque Areião, Goiânia, Goias, Brazil; 8/2007 © Sonja Germer

Physocalymma scaberrimum - Leaf - Click to enlarge!

Leaf; Parque Areião, Goiânia, Goias, Brazil; 8/2007 © Sonja Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 663
Date of entry: 13.10.2007
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Brazilian rose wood

German: Brasilianisches Rosenholz

Portuguese: Nó-de-porco

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Myrtales (80)

        Family: Lythraceae (12)(family description)

          Genus: Physocalymma (1)

            Epithet: scaberrimum Pohl (1)

scaberrimum => roughest

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: tree

Flower colour: purple, violet, pink

External links

Check for Physocalymma scaberrimum at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

Literature

  • [23] Lorenzi,H. (2002): Brazilian trees: A guide to the identification and cultivation of Brazilian native trees. Plantarum, Nova Odessa, São Paulo, Brazil.

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