Hymenaea

• Region

  South America

• Country

  Brazil

• State/Province

  Bahia

• Locality

  10 km S of Livramento do Brumado on road to Brumado

• Coordinates

  -13.72, -41.83

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

Hymenaea jfroriogyn^	(*50
'	St
BRAZIL: Bahia: 10 km S of Livramento do
Brumado on road to Brumado. Picada from
smallholding on left of road leading to
quartzite outcrop. Sandy banks of
stream by man-made weir.
c.41°50'W, 13°43'S
Surrounding vegetation: caatinga.
Locally common, large, elegant riverside
tree to 15 m x 60 cm; bark pale grey,
smoothish, appearing almost corky and
swollen like a fat-person's leg.
Regular branching from 1.5 m upwards;
leaflets bottle green; young leafflets
and particularly sapling growth much
larger than mature leaflets. Seeds dark
red, very hard, retained within mesocarp
until it is black and rotten and exocarp
degenerates. Wood very hard.
Wood sample, fruit & seed separate,
photographs
G.P. Lewis & S.M.M. de Andrade 1882
DUPLS.: CEPEC
25.3.1991