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Tingo María National Park
Tingo María National Park () is located in the districts of Rupa Rupa and Mariano Dámaso, in the region of Huánuco, Peru. It was established on May 14, 1965 and its main attractions are the montane forest vegetation and the cave named Cueva de las Lechuzas (Spanish for ''Cave of the Owls'') where the oilbirds nest. The park has an area of that include a mountain massif called ''La Bella Durmiente'' (Spanish for Sleeping Beauty). History In 1940, 2 years after the foundation of the nearby town of Tingo María, some forest areas were spared from human development to create a new protected natural area. In 1950, during the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odría, a protected area called ''Cueva de las Lechuzas National Reserve'' was created in the area of the future national park. On May 14, 1965, Tingo María National Park was established by Law No. 15574, which stated that the area include the Bella Durmiente massif, the cave named Cueva de Las Lechuzas and adjacent forests. Howe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Bella Durmiente, Peru
La Bella Durmiente (Spanish for Sleeping Beauty), also known as Puma Ringri (possibly from Quechua ''puma'' cougar, puma, ''rinri'' ear, "puma ear"), is a mountain and prominent feature of Tingo María National Park, in the region of Huánuco, Peru. It is located in the district of Mariano Damaso, Leoncio Prado Province, Huánuco Huánuco (; ) is a city in central Peru. It had a population of 196,627 as of 2017 and in 2015 it had a population of 175,068. It is the capital of the Huánuco Region and the Huánuco District. It is the seat of the diocese of Huánuco. The met ... and reaches an elevation of . Name The name comes from the shape of the mountain, which resembles a woman lying down, and is present in a local folktale. References Mountains of the Department of Huánuco {{Huánuco-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manilkara Bidentata
''Manilkara bidentata'' is a species of '' Manilkara'' native to a large area of northern South America, Central America and the Caribbean. Common names include bulletwood, balatá, ausubo, massaranduba, quinilla, and (ambiguously) " cow-tree". Description The balatá is a large tree, growing to tall. The leaves are alternate, elliptical, entire, and long. The flowers are white, and are produced at the beginning of the rainy season. The fruit is a yellow berry, in diameter, which is edible; it contains one (occasionally two) seed(s). Its latex is used industrially for products such as chicle. Uses The latex is extracted in the same manner in which sap is extracted from the rubber tree. It is then dried to form an inelastic rubber-like material. It is almost identical to gutta-percha (produced from a closely related southeast Asian tree), and is sometimes called ''gutta-balatá''. Balatá was often used in the production of high-quality golf balls, to use as the outer l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Brocket
The red brocket (''Mazama americana'') is a species of brocket deer from forests in South America, ranging from northern Argentina to Colombia and the Guianas. It also occurs on the Caribbean island of Trinidad (it also occurred on the island of Tobago until very recent historical times, but has been extirpated there). Taxonomy It formerly included the Central American red brocket (''M. temama'') and sometimes the Yucatan brown brocket (''M. pandora'') as subspecies. Considerable taxonomic confusion still exists for the populations remaining in the red brocket. Pending a solution to this, it has been evaluated as data deficient by the IUCN, though as presently defined, it is the most widespread species of brocket. It is sympatric with the smaller Amazonian brown brocket over much of its range (the latter tends to have significantly lower population densities). The karyotype A karyotype is the general appearance of the complete set of chromosomes in the cells of a species or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South American Tapir
The South American tapir (''Tapirus terrestris''), also commonly called the Brazilian tapir (from the Tupi ), the Amazonian tapir, the maned tapir, the lowland tapir, (Brazilian Portuguese), and ''la sachavaca'' (literally "bushcow", in mixed Quechua and Spanish), is one of the four recognized species in the tapir family (of the order Perissodactyla, with the mountain tapir, the Malayan tapir, and the Baird's tapir). It is the largest surviving native terrestrial mammal in the Amazon. Most classifications also include ''Tapirus kabomani'' (also known as the dwarf black tapir or the kabomani tapir) as also belonging to the species ''Tapirus terrestris'' (Brazilian tapir), despite its questionable existence and the overall lack of information on its habits and distribution. The specific epithet derives from ''arabo kabomani'', the word for tapir in the local Paumarí language. The formal description of this tapir did not suggest a common name for the species. The Karitiana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phragmipedium Besseae
''Phragmipedium besseae'' is a species of orchid in the genus ''Phragmipedium''. It is a terrestrial plant native to the wet montane forests on the eastern slope of the Andes in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ....The Gore Orchid Conservatory http://www.goreorchidconservatory.com/SpecPgs/Phrag-besseae.html Description It has 13–30 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, dull green, keeled leaves. The inflorescence is 1-6 flowered, opening sequentially, up to 50 cm long, brown, pilose. It has flowers 6–9 cm wide, 1 to 2" (4 to 6.5 cm), pouch with translucent windows. ''Phragmipedium besseae'' produces long rhizomes.Slipperfreak 2007 ''Phragmipedium besseae'' http://www.orchidboard.com/node/122 References besseae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phragmipedium
''Phragmipedium'' is a genus of the Orchid family (Orchidaceae) (Subfamily Cypripedioideae) and the only genus comprised in the tribe Phragmipedieae and subtribe Phragmipediinae. The name of the genus is derived from the Greek ''phragma'', which means "division", and ''pedium'', which means "slipper" (referring to the pouch). It is abbreviated 'Phrag' in trade journals. About 20 species of these lady's slipper orchids are known from SW Mexico, Central and tropical South America. All ''Phragmipedium'' species are listed under Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), meaning that commercial international trade in wild-sourced specimens is prohibited, while non-commercial trade is regulated. Taxonomy The genus ''Phragmipedium '' is divided into several sections : * Phragmipedium : ''P. caudatum, P. exstaminodium, P. lindenii'' * Himantopetalum : ''P. caricinum, P. christiansenianum, P. pearcei, P. klotzscheanum, P. richteri, P. tetzla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyathea
''Cyathea'' is a genus of tree ferns, the type genus of the fern order Cyatheales. The genus name ''Cyathea'' is derived from the Greek ''kyatheion'', meaning "little cup", and refers to the cup-shaped sori on the underside of the fronds. Description The species of ''Cyathea'' are mostly terrestrial ferns, usually with a single tall stem. Rarely, the trunk may be branched or creeping. Many species also develop a fibrous mass of roots at the base of the trunk. The genus has a pantropical distribution, with over 470 species. They grow in habitats ranging from tropical rain forests to temperate woodlands. Classification Conant ''et al.'' in 1996, concluded on molecular cpDNA and morphological evidence that a system of three clades – ''Alsophila'', ''Cyathea'' and ''Sphaeropteris'' was the most accurate reflection of evolutionary lineages within the Cyatheaceae, ''Alsophila'' being the most basal and ''Cyathea'' and ''Sphaeropteris'' derived sister groups. In the Pteri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geonoma
''Geonoma'' is a genus of small to medium-sized palms native to the forest understorey of tropical Central and South America. This palm genus is one of the largest in the Neotropics. Its 64 species are distributed from Mexico and Haiti in the north to Paraguay in the south; two are found in the Lesser Antilles. Uses In South America, the leaves of species such as '' Geonoma deversa'', '' Geonoma orbignyana'', and '' Geonoma macrostachys'' are economically important for their use in thatching roofs. Taxonomy The genus is a member of the palm tribe Geonomateae (Arecaceae: Arecoideae), an important Neotropical group due to its wide distribution across Central and South America, its diversity and abundance, and the use of a number of species by local human populations. The distribution of the tribe Geonomeae stretches from southeast Mexico down through Central America and into South America, notably Brazil and Bolivia, and species are also found in the Greater and Lesser Antille ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phytelephas Macrocarpa
''Phytelephas macrocarpa'' is a single-stemmed, unarmed, reclining or erect palm from the extreme northern coastal regions of South America, growing to some 12 m tall. It has been introduced and cultivated in tropical regions all over the world. The trunk is about 30 cm across, with prominent leaf scars. The crown is made up of about 30 plume-like leaves or fronds, each about 8 m long, dead leaves being persistent. It is one of some 7 species of palm in the genus ''Phytelephas'', all of which have been exploited for vegetable ivory or tagua from the seed or corozo nut. The closely related ''Ammandra decasperma'' from Colombia, and ''Aphandra natalia'' from Ecuador, are also sources of vegetable ivory, but of inferior quality and therefore not commercially significant. 'Phytelephas macrocarpa' translates to ‘elephant plant’ with 'large fruit', the endosperm of the nut having the texture of elephant ivory, and consisting of large, thick-walled cells of two long-chain polysac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iriartea
''Iriartea'' is a genus in the palm family ''Arecaceae''. It is native to Central and South America. The best-known species – and probably the only one – is ''Iriartea deltoidea'', which is found from Nicaragua, south into Bolivia and a great portion of Western Amazonian basin. It is the most common tree in many forests in which it occurs. Names It is known by such names as ''bombona'' (which can also refer to other palms, e.g. '' Attalea regia'') or ''cacho de vaca'' (which can refer to many other plants, like the Bignoniaceae ''Godmania aesculifolia'' or the orchid '' Myrmecophila humboldtii''). In the Murui Huitoto language of southwestern Colombia, it is called ''jɨagɨna'' or ''jɨaìgɨna'',Marín-Corba ''et al.'' (2005) in western Ecuador it is known as ''pambil'', and in Peru it is known as the ''pona'' palm. Description These palms are canopy trees growing to 20–35 m tall. ''I. deltoidea'' is easily recognized by the prominent bulge in the center of it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oenocarpus Bataua
''Oenocarpus bataua'', the patawa, sehe, hungurahua (Ecuador) or mingucha, is a palm tree native to the Amazon rainforest. The tree produces edible fruits rich in high-quality oil.Vallejo Rendón, Darío 2002. "Oenocarpus bataua, seje"; ''Colombia Amazónica'', separata especies promisorias 1. Corporación Colombiana para la Amazonia –Araracuara- COA. Distribution and habitat It is native to the tropical rainforests of South America and is abundant in the wet zones at elevations less than . Its distribution stretches from Panama and Trinidad to the Amazon basin (Colombia, Venezuela, Guianas, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru). Two varieties are recognized: #''Oenocarpus bataua'' var. ''bataua'' - Panama and South America #''Oenocarpus bataua'' var. ''oligocarpus'' (Griseb. & H.Wendl.) A.J.Hend. - Trinidad, Venezuela, Guianas In Western Amazonia, ''O. bataua'' is one of the top three palm species in both frequency and abundance. It reaches its highest densities in soils of low to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euterpe Precatoria
''Euterpe precatoria'' is a tall, slender-stemmed, pinnate-leaved palm native to Central and South America and Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean, comprising the main islands of Trinidad and Tobago, along with several List of islands of Trinidad and Tobago, smaller i .... ''E. precatoria'' is used commercially to produce fruits, although ''Euterpe oleracea'' is more commonly cultivated due to its larger fruits. Biological description Stems are usually solitary (occasionally clustered), 3–20 metres tall and 4–23 centimetres in diameter. It is also estimated to be the most common tree in the Amazonian region, though it accounts for just over 1% of all adult trees there (5 billion out of 390 billion). This census covered only the Amazon basin. There would be many additional individuals in the Orinoco Basin and in Central America. Uses ''E. precatoria'' is a non-timbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
