''Carpinus tropicalis'' is a species of tree native to central and southern

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, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and

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Description

''Carpinus tropicalis'' is small to medium-sized tree which grows up to 30 meters tall, with a trunk up to 100 cm in diameter.Mario González-Espinosa, Jorge A. Meave, Francisco G. Lorea-Hernández, Guillermo Ibarra-Manríquez and Adrian C. Newton, eds (2011). ''The Red List of Mexican Cloud Forest Trees''. Fauna & Flora International, Cambridge, UK. 2011.

Range and habitat

In Mexico it is found in scattered locations in the Sierra Madre Oriental,

Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt The Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt ( es, Eje Volcánico Transversal), also known as the Transvolcanic Belt and locally as the (''Snowy Mountain Range''), is an active volcanic belt that covers central-southern Mexico. Several of its highest peaks h ...

Sierra Madre de Oaxaca The Sierra Madre de Oaxaca is a mountain range in southern Mexico. It is primarily in the state of Oaxaca, and extends north into the states of Puebla and Veracruz. Geography The mountain range begins at Pico de Orizaba, and extends in a southeas ...

, southern

Sierra Madre Occidental The Sierra Madre Occidental is a major mountain range system of the North American Cordillera, that runs northwest–southeast through northwestern and western Mexico, and along the Gulf of California. The Sierra Madre is part of the American ...

, Sierra Madre del Sur, Chiapas Highlands, and Sierra Madre de Chiapas. It is also found in the highlands of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. It is characteristic cloud forest tree, and is also found in oak, pine–oak, and pine forests, between 1,000 and 2,700 meters elevation.

References

{{reflist Cloud forest flora of Mexico Flora of the Sierra Madre del Sur Flora of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca Flora of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt Flora of the Sierra Madre Occidental Chiapas Highlands Sierra Madre de Chiapas Flora of the Central American montane forests Flora of the Central American pine–oak forests Trees of Mexico Trees of Guatemala Trees of El Salvador Trees of Honduras Trees of Nicaragua Trees of Southern Mexico Trees of Central Mexico Trees of Southwestern Mexico tropicalis