Alchornea triplinervia

Alchornea triplinervia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Genus: Alchornea
Species:
A. triplinervia
Binomial name
Alchornea triplinervia
Synonyms
  • Alchornea janeirensis Casar.
  • Alchornea nemoralis Mart.
  • Antidesma triplinervium Spreng. [1]

Alchornea triplinervia is a commercial timber tree [2] native to the Amazon Rainforest, Atlantic Forest, and Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. This plant is found in the following states of Brazil: Amazonas, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Rondônia, Roraima, Santa Catarina, and São Paulo.[3] It is also used as a honey plant.

  1. ^ (in Portuguese) Lorenzi, Harri (1992) Árvores Brasileiras (Brazilian Trees) Nova Odessa: Plantarum. p. 98
  2. ^ Alchornea triplinervia at Richter, H.G., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2000 onwards. Commercial timbers: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval. In English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. Version: 16 April 2006.
  3. ^ (in Portuguese) Alchornea triplinervia at Instituto de Pesquisas e Estudos Florestais