Botany

Flowering plant

Cremastosperma megalophyllum R.E.Fr.

This plant specimen, pressed and dried on a herbarium sheet, was collected in Napo, Ecuador in 1989 by F. Hurtado. It belongs to the Annonaceae family (flowering plant) and is preserved so scientists can study it for generations.

Napo, Ecuador

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Flowering plant

Annona montana Macfad.