Wild Flowering Plants
| Sapotaceae family Micropholis crotonoides (Pierre) Pierre, Symb. Antill. 5: 114. 1904. Bas.: Crepinodendron crotonoides Pierre (1890). Glan Indigenous quite common tree of lower montane tropical rainforest, Dauphin, Dennery, Praslin, Micoud. A few trees seen close to Venus, Anse La Raye. St. Lucia, Mesoamerica, South America. Not found on the other islands. Not mentioned in FLA ( except perhaps as a 'large-leafed' form of Manilkara bidentata, which it is not). However Beard, unknown to Howard, had previously collected this species in St. Lucia. |
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