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Alfaroa
''Alfaroa'' is a genus of evergreen trees in the Juglandaceae family of the Fagales, growing in montane and submontane tropical rain forests in Central America. The wood is characterized by solid pith, pink heartwood, and vessels with scalariform perforations, as well as simple perforations. Description The (usually pinnately compound) leaves are evergreen and lack stipules. They are alternate, rarely opposite. The plants are monoecious, the male flowers being in lateral panicles (several pairs of catkins on an inflorescence) and the female flowers born terminally either in a single spike or in a hermaphroditic panicle including several paired male catkins. Each flower has a wide bract, two bracteoles, and four sepals. The flowers are sessile. The male flowers have a round or oblong receptacle and six to ten stamens. The pollen grains are approximately 24 micrometers in diameter and are slightly triangular in polar view. The small fruits are nuts, one-chambered at the apex ...
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Alfaroa Columbiana
''Alfaroa'' is a genus of evergreen trees in the Juglandaceae family of the Fagales, growing in montane and submontane tropical rain forests in Central America. The wood is characterized by solid pith, pink heartwood, and vessels with scalariform perforations, as well as simple perforations. Description The (usually pinnately compound) leaves are evergreen and lack stipules. They are alternate, rarely opposite. The plants are monoecious, the male flowers being in lateral panicles (several pairs of catkins on an inflorescence) and the female flowers born terminally either in a single spike or in a hermaphroditic panicle including several paired male catkins. Each flower has a wide bract, two bracteoles, and four sepals. The flowers are sessile. The male flowers have a round or oblong receptacle and six to ten stamens. The pollen grains are approximately 24 micrometers in diameter and are slightly triangular in polar view. The small fruits are nuts, one-chambered at the apex ...
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Alfaroa
''Alfaroa'' is a genus of evergreen trees in the Juglandaceae family of the Fagales, growing in montane and submontane tropical rain forests in Central America. The wood is characterized by solid pith, pink heartwood, and vessels with scalariform perforations, as well as simple perforations. Description The (usually pinnately compound) leaves are evergreen and lack stipules. They are alternate, rarely opposite. The plants are monoecious, the male flowers being in lateral panicles (several pairs of catkins on an inflorescence) and the female flowers born terminally either in a single spike or in a hermaphroditic panicle including several paired male catkins. Each flower has a wide bract, two bracteoles, and four sepals. The flowers are sessile. The male flowers have a round or oblong receptacle and six to ten stamens. The pollen grains are approximately 24 micrometers in diameter and are slightly triangular in polar view. The small fruits are nuts, one-chambered at the apex ...
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Alfaroa Roxburghiana
''Alfaroa'' is a genus of evergreen trees in the Juglandaceae family of the Fagales, growing in montane and submontane tropical rain forests in Central America. The wood is characterized by solid pith, pink heartwood, and vessels with scalariform perforations, as well as simple perforations. Description The (usually pinnately compound) leaves are evergreen and lack stipules. They are alternate, rarely opposite. The plants are monoecious, the male flowers being in lateral panicles (several pairs of catkins on an inflorescence) and the female flowers born terminally either in a single spike or in a hermaphroditic panicle including several paired male catkins. Each flower has a wide bract, two bracteoles, and four sepals. The flowers are sessile. The male flowers have a round or oblong receptacle and six to ten stamens. The pollen grains are approximately 24 micrometers in diameter and are slightly triangular in polar view. The small fruits are nuts, one-chambered at the apex ...
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Alfaroa Guatemalensis
''Alfaroa'' is a genus of evergreen trees in the Juglandaceae family of the Fagales, growing in montane and submontane tropical rain forests in Central America. The wood is characterized by solid pith, pink heartwood, and vessels with scalariform perforations, as well as simple perforations. Description The (usually pinnately compound) leaves are evergreen and lack stipules. They are alternate, rarely opposite. The plants are monoecious, the male flowers being in lateral panicles (several pairs of catkins on an inflorescence) and the female flowers born terminally either in a single spike or in a hermaphroditic panicle including several paired male catkins. Each flower has a wide bract, two bracteoles, and four sepals. The flowers are sessile. The male flowers have a round or oblong receptacle and six to ten stamens. The pollen grains are approximately 24 micrometers in diameter and are slightly triangular in polar view. The small fruits are nuts, one-chambered at the apex ...
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Alfaroa Costaricensis
''Alfaroa costaricensis'', also known as campano chile, chiciscua, gaulin, gavilán Colorado, or gavilancillo, is nut bearing timber tree in the Juglandaceae family. It is native to the Neotropics, from Mexico, through Central America to Colombia. Habitat ''Alfaroa costaricensis'' normally grows in cloudy areas on well-drained soils with slopes of 5% or more at elevations between 600 and 2200 m which receive 1500–2500 mm of precipitation and sustain temperatures of 15 to 20 °C. This tree does not grow well in the shade. Description ''Alfaroa costaricensis'' is a slow growing tree with pink heartwood. It can reach 27 m in height and 60 cm diameter at breast height (d.b.h.). The seed is a nut, one-chambered at the apex and eight-chambered at the base, which measures 1.6 to 2.5 cm long and 1.4 to 1.6 cm in diameter, and is protected by a hard, thick, brown pericarp. Germination is hypogeal. The leaves are pinnately compound, and are distinguishab ...
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Alfaroa Manningii
''Alfaroa manningii'', or gavilán colorado, is a valued lumber tree of the Walnut family endemic to the premontane Costa Rican rain forest. The specific epithet honors the American botanist Wayne Eyer Manning (1899–2004). Description ''Alfaroa manningii'' grows to 24 m tall, with a diameter at breast height up to 0.9 m, and small to medium large buttress roots. The bark is reddish brown externally, and yellow orange internally. The sapwood is white, the heartwood pink. The opposite pinnately compound leaves bear eight to twelve (rarely six to eighteen) opposite leaflets. The petiole of the leaf is 5–9 cm long, and the petioles of the leaflets are 2–5 mm long. The entire leaf may be up to 3 m long. (The first two leaves on a seedling are simple, and are followed by several alternate compound leaves.) The upright female inflorescence is born terminally on the current year's growth, containing 40 to 50 blossoms. The male inflorescence is a catkin, up to 18 ...
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Alfaroa Mexicana
''Alfaroa mexicana'' is a species of plant in the family Juglandaceae. It is endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ... to Mexico. References mexicana Endemic flora of Mexico Trees of Mexico Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Plants described in 1968 {{Fagales-stub ...
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Juglandaceae
The Juglandaceae are a plant family known as the walnut family. They are trees, or sometimes shrubs, in the order Fagales. Members of this family are native to the Americas, Eurasia, and Southeast Asia. The nine or ten genera in the family have a total of around 50 species, and include the commercially important nut-producing trees walnut (''Juglans''), pecan (''Carya illinoinensis''), and hickory (''Carya''). The Persian walnut, ''Juglans regia'', is one of the major nut crops of the world. Walnut, hickory, and gaulin are also valuable timber trees while pecan wood is also valued as cooking fuel. Description Members of the walnut family have large, aromatic leaves that are usually alternate, but opposite in ''Alfaroa'' and ''Oreomunnea''. The leaves are pinnately compound or ternate, and usually 20–100 cm long. The trees are wind-pollinated, and the flowers are usually arranged in catkins. The fruits of the Juglandaceae are often confused with drupes but are accessory f ...
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Alfaroa Hondurensis
''Alfaroa hondurensis'' is a species of plant in the Juglandaceae family. It is endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ... to Honduras. References hondurensis Endemic flora of Honduras Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Fagales-stub ...
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Alfaroa Williamsii
''Alfaroa williamsii'' is a tropical monoecious cloud forest dwelling species of tree first recognized in the Cordillera Central of Nicaragua at an altitude of 1.3 km. The mature tree is 15–25 m in height, with a 0.5 m DBH. The sub-opposite to alternate pinnately compound leaves bear three to five opposite to sub-opposite pairs of coriaceous This glossary of botanical terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to botany and plants in general. Terms of plant morphology are included here as well as at the more specific Glossary of plant morphology and Glossary o ... leaflets, glabrous above and covered with minute scales below. The pollen is born on panicles consisting of several erect catkins. The small, nearly round, glabrous, ribbed fruits are born on a sparsely flowered spike. The sub-species ''A. williamsii'' subsp. ''tapantiensis'' has been recognized by D. Stone. References and external links *Antonio Molina R. "Two New Nicaraguan Jug ...
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Alfaroa Guanacastensis
''Alfaroa guanacastensis'' is a species of plant in the Juglandaceae family, first described from material found in the vicinity of Guanacaste, Costa Rica. It is known to flourish at altitudes from 2400 to 3700 feet. The trees grow to 90 feet tall with a DBH of up to 2 feet. The lower trunk often has buttresses. The sapwood is white, and the heartwood is pink. The pith is solid. The opposite leaves are pinnately compound, with opposite to sub-opposite leaflets. The tree is monoecious. The staminate inflorescences are panicles consisting of several erect catkins. The pistillate inflorescence is a terminal spike, which may be separate from the staminate inflorescence, or may be part of an androgynous panicle. The staminate inflorescences have an odor compared to the gardenia. The fruit is an oval nut, twice as long as wide, with a bitter meat. Germination is hypogeal Hypogeal, hypogean, hypogeic and hypogeous (; ) are biological terms describing an organism's activi ...
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Fagales Genera
The Fagales are an order of flowering plants, including some of the best-known trees. The order name is derived from genus ''Fagus'', beeches. They belong among the rosid group of dicotyledons. The families and genera currently included are as follows: *Betulaceae – birch family (''Alnus'', ''Betula'', ''Carpinus'', ''Corylus'', ''Ostrya'', '' Ostryopsis'') *Casuarinaceae – she-oak family (''Allocasuarina'', ''Casuarina'', ''Ceuthostoma'', ''Gymnostoma'') *Fagaceae – beech family (''Castanea'', ''Castanopsis'', ''Chrysolepis'', '' Colombobalanus'', ''Fagus'', ''Lithocarpus'', ''Notholithocarpus'', ''Quercus'') *Juglandaceae – walnut family ('' Alfaroa'', ''Carya'', ''Cyclocarya'', ''Engelhardia'', ''Juglans'', '' Oreomunnea'', '' Platycarya'', ''Pterocarya'', '' Rhoiptelea'') *Myricaceae – bayberry family (''Canacomyrica'', '' Comptonia'', ''Myrica'') *Nothofagaceae – southern beech family (''Nothofagus'') * Ticodendraceae – ticodendron family (''Ticodendron'') T ...
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