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Ophiocaryon
Sign in to saveOphiocaryon is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Sabiaceae found mainly in the Guayana Shield and Amazon basin in South America.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderProteales
- FamilySabiaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 65
- With media
- 33
- Family
- Sabiaceae
- Collections
- US, NY, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA), JBRJ, MNHN, MO
- Recorded in
- Guyana, Brazil, Brasil, Surinam, BréSil, Peru, Ecuador
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Ophiocaryon is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Sabiaceae found mainly in the Guayana Shield and Amazon basin in South America.
==Species== Ophiocaryon neillii Aymard & Daly (Ecuador) Ophiocaryon klugii Barneby (Brazil, Colombia, Peru) Ophiocaryon heterophyllum (Benth.) Urban (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru) Ophiocaryon chironectes Barneby (Brazil-Guyana border Ophiocaryon duckei Barneby (Brazil, Peru Ophiocaryon paradoxum R. Schomburgk (Guyana) Ophiocaryon maguirei Barneby (Guyana)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ophiocaryon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.