Myristica beddomei
Species of flowering plant / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Myristica beddomei is a species of tree in the family Myristicaceae. It is endemic to the Western Ghats, India,[2] where it is frequent in the mid-elevation wet evergreen forests[3] and an important food tree of hornbills. The species has been earlier misidentified in regional floras and herbarium specimens as Myristica dactyloides Gaertn., the latter occurring only in Sri Lanka.[2]
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Magnoliids |
Order: | Magnoliales |
Family: | Myristicaceae |
Genus: | Myristica |
Species: | M. beddomei |
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Myristica beddomei | |
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