Dinizia excelsa

Dinizia excelsa (known as angelim vermelho, angelim, angelim pedra, paricá (Brazil); Awaraimë (Trio, Suriname); Parakwa (Wapisiana, Guyana). Lorenzi (1992: 176) also includes the popular names: angelim falso, faveira, faveira-dura, faveira-ferro and faveiro-do-grande) is an canopy-emergent tropical rainforest tree species in the family Fabaceae.

Dinizia excelsa

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Dinizia
Species:
D. excelsa
Binomial name
Dinizia excelsa

It is found in Guyana, Suriname and Amazonia Brazil (in the northern and central-western states of Amapa, Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Para, Rondonia, Roraima and Tocantins). Also recorded from the state of Acre by Lorenzi (1992)[4].

The species clearly prefers non-flooded environments and is recorded from the non-inundated moist forest, non-flooded upland mixed forest, “floresta ombrofila mista”, tropical forest on “terra firme”, tropical upland evergreen forest, and tropical dry forest, at elevations from 50-490 m.

It is one of the tallest tropical tree species in the World grows 60 m and taller. The unarmed, trunk cylindrical, the bole of larger specimens 15-22.5 m, up to 3 m in diameter at soil level, DBH (23-)80cm-2 m, moderately to strongly buttressed, the buttresses to 4-5 m tall[5].

Tallest tree, 2019

The tallest measured specimen is 88.5 m with a circumference of 5.50 m, which is believed to be about 400 years old and has been discovered near Jari River in Inipuku (municipality of Almeirim, Para state) on August 21, 2019, in a grove of Dinizia excelsa.[6][7] The discovery was made by using aerial sensors over Paru State Forest, which is shared by the Brazilian Amazon basin states of Amapa and Para. [8] News of the discovery was first published in August 2019 in scientific journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

See also

References
  1. iucnredlist.org / Angelim
  2. tropicos.org / Dinizia excelsa Ducke
  3. theplantlist.org / Dinizia excelsa Ducke
  4. gbif.org / Dinizia excelsa Ducke, 1922
  5. plantsoftheworldonline.org / Dinizia excelsa Ducke
  6. inverse.com / The Amazon’s Tallest Trees Are Safe (for Now), By Nina Pullano on September 12, 2019
  7. mongabay.com / LIDAR technology leads Brazilian team to 30 stories tall Amazon tree, by Jenny Gonzales on 11 November 2019
  8. theconversation.com / The Amazon’s tallest tree just got 50% taller – and scientists don’t know how, September 11, 2019
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