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A weird melastom

Bellucia pentamera

Description:

Found in the forest at Jenaro Herrera, lowland Upper Amazon, spotted on the ground near a river, didn't go find the tree (as was on a tight time schedule), but the tree would grow on sand soil riverine forest, it was in early May

Habitat:

Sand soil riverine forest

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2 Comments

MaryEvans2
MaryEvans2 12 years ago

very interesting looking- nice spot and photo

achmmad
achmmad 12 years ago

Never see something like this one before. Great!

Xinxin
Spotted by
Xinxin

Iquitos, Loreto, Peru

Spotted on May 3, 2009
Submitted on Oct 3, 2011

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