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This is a list of plants found in the wild in Amazon Rainforest vegetation of Brazil. The estimates from useful plants suggested that there are 800 plant species of economic or social value in this forest, according to Giacometti (1990). [1]
An area of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. The tropical rainforests of South America contain the largest diversity of species on Earth. [1] [2] Tropical rainforest climate zones (Af). Tropical forests: from the UN FRA2000 report. Tropical rainforests are dense and warm rainforests with high rainfall typically found between 10° north and south ...
Brazil's immense area is subdivided into different ecoregions in several kinds of biomes.Because of the wide variety of habitats in Brazil, from the jungles of the Amazon Rainforest and the Atlantic Forest (which includes Atlantic Coast restingas), to the tropical savanna of the Cerrado, to the xeric shrubland of the Caatinga, to the world's largest wetland area, the Pantanal, there exists a ...
Heliconia is a genus of flowering plants in the monotypic family Heliconiaceae. Most of the 194 known species [3] are native to the tropical Americas, but a few are indigenous to certain islands of the western Pacific and Maluku in Indonesia. [2] Many species of Heliconia are found in the tropical forests of these regions.
Combretum rotundifolium, the monkey brush or monkey brush vine, is a plant species in the genus Combretum found in South America.. The natural range encompasses the Amazon Basin and surrounding areas, found everywhere along the Kabalebo river, high up in trees or low closely tangled with Inga trees.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Drought-tolerant plants (5 C, 371 P) E. Ephemeral plants ... Pages in category "Plants by adaptation"
Idiospermum is a monotypic genus (that is, a genus that contains only one species) in the family Calycanthaceae.The sole included species is Idiospermum australiense − commonly known as idiotfruit, ribbonwood, or dinosaur tree − which is found only in two small areas of the tropical rainforests of northeastern Queensland, Australia.
It is one of the tallest tropical tree species: the tallest measured specimen is 85.8 m [6] or 88 m [2] (281 or 289 ft) tall. These grow mostly in lowland rainforests where they tower over the canopy. Like most tall rainforest trees they have huge buttress roots to support their weight. This is because the majority of the nutrients in ...