A New Lightweight-Wooded Species of Anaxagorea (Annonaceae) from Flooded Black-Water Shrublands in Southern Venezuela

Authors :: Regis B. Miller
Paul E. Berry
Alex C. Wiedenhoeft
Source :: Systematic Botany. 24:506
Publication Year :: 1999
Publisher :: JSTOR, 1999.
Abstract: Anaxagorea inundata P. E. Berry & R. B. Miller is a distinctive new species from the black- water Rio Atabapo basin in southern Venezuela. It is adapted to its strongly flooded habitat by producing very lightweight wood (specific gravity

Subjects :: Blackwater
geography
geography.geographical_feature_category
biology
Ecology
Plant Science
Structural basin
biology.organism_classification
Shrubland
Habitat
Annonaceae
Botany
Genetics
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Anaxagorea

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