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Gyranthera caribensis
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Gyranthera caribensis is a large tree in the tropical rainforests of northern Venezuela, where it is endemic in the Venezuelan Coastal Range. Traditionally placed in the baobab family, which is now a subfamily Bombacoideae of the family Malvaceae. One notable individual called "El Piè Grande" ("Bigfoot"), near Orqueta in Yaracuy State in northern Venezuela, has a height of 63.43 m and a girth of 17.12 m.
- Family
- Malvaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Gyranthera caribensis
- Slug
- gyranthera-caribensis
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Malvaceae
- Genus
- Gyranthera
- Species
- caribensis
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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