CITATION — REFERENCE ENTRY
100 Árvores do Cerrado: Guia de Campo — Rede de Sementes do Cerrado
- Key
- silvajunior2005cerrado
- Authors
- Silva Júnior, Manoel Cláudio da; Correia dos Santos, Gilmar; Nogueira, Paulo Ernane; Munhoz, Cássia Beatriz Rodrigues; Ramos, Alba Evangelista
- Issued
- 2005
- Type
- book
- Publisher
- Rede de Sementes do Cerrado
- Publisher place
- Brasília
Raw CSL JSON
{
"ISBN": "85-7238-158-9",
"type": "book",
"title": "100 Árvores do Cerrado: Guia de Campo",
"author": [
{
"given": "Manoel Cláudio da",
"family": "Silva Júnior"
},
{
"given": "Gilmar",
"family": "Correia dos Santos"
},
{
"given": "Paulo Ernane",
"family": "Nogueira"
},
{
"given": "Cássia Beatriz Rodrigues",
"family": "Munhoz"
},
{
"given": "Alba Evangelista",
"family": "Ramos"
}
],
"issued": {
"date-parts": [
[
2005
]
]
},
"publisher": "Rede de Sementes do Cerrado",
"publisher-place": "Brasília"
}
Claims
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In the Federal District and surrounding states (CE, GO, MA, MG, MS, MT, PA, PR, SP, TO), the species occurs in Cerrado sensu stricto, gallery forests, dry forests, and cerradão. Average population densities in Cerrado sensu stricto are below one individual per hectare in 10-hectare plots sampled in the DF.
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In the Cerrado sensu stricto, trunks reach up to 33 cm DBH. The bark (ritidoma) is brown to reddish when scraped, scaly with thin plates. Leaves have 4–12 alternate or opposite leaflets, elliptic to oblong, up to 8 cm × 4 cm, with obtuse to retuse apices, brochidodromous venation, and translucent laminar glands in some individuals. Flowers up to 0.5 cm in diameter with five free cream petals. Fruits up to 5 cm, ovoid, brown when ripe. Seeds up to 2 cm, black, with an orange aril, one per fruit.
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The genus name Copaifera is a Latinisation of the Tupi word kopa'iwa, meaning 'resin tree'. The species epithet langsdorffii honours the German-Austrian physician and botanist G.H. von Langsdorff. The common name Copaíba also derives from Tupi and means 'resin tree'.
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Leaf flush occurs July–September; flowering September–March; pollination by small insects; fruiting May–October; dispersal by birds. Seeds: 1,700–2,200 per kg, storable for 4 years at 5°C; germination rate 85–95% in 17–40 days.
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