''Brownea santanderensis'' is a tree in the family
, native to Colombia. It is named for Colombia's
Santander Department.
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Description
''Brownea santanderensis'' grows as a tree from tall. The leaves consist of up to 4 pairs of leaflets, elliptical and measuring up to long. Inflorescences
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphology (biology), Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of sperma ...
feature flowers with five red petals.[
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Distribution and habitat
''Brownea santanderensis'' 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 elsew ...
to Colombia, where it is confined to Santander Department. Its habitat is at altitudes from .[
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References
santanderensis
Endemic flora of Colombia
Plants described in 1995
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