''Damburneya roberto-andinoi'' is a species of

plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...

in the family

Lauraceae Lauraceae, or the laurels, is a plant family that includes the true laurel and its closest relatives. This family comprises about 2850 known species in about 45 genera worldwide (Christenhusz & Byng 2016 ). They are dicotyledons, and occur ma ...

. 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 elsew ...

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...

. It is a tree growing up to 15 meters tall. ''Damburneya roberto-andinoi'' grows in humid lowland and montane forests in the

Chortis Highlands The Chortis Highlands is a highland region in northern Central America, which covers portions of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua.Townsend, J. H. (2014). Characterizing the Chortís Block Biogeographic Province: geological, physiograp ...

, from 700 to 1,600 meters elevation.

References

roberto-andinoi Endemic flora of Honduras Plants described in 2021 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Laurales-stub