Gustavia fosteri: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Ericales
- Family
- Lecythidaceae
- Genus
- Gustavia
- Species
- Gustavia fosteri
- Scientific Name
- Gustavia fosteri
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Gustavia fosteri
Gustavia fosteri, one of several plants in the genus Gustavia known by the Spanish common name membrillo, is a species of woody plant in the family Lecythidaceae. It is found only on Barro Colorado Island in Panama. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Gustavia fosteri is distinguished from the more abundant Gustavia superba by several features, including smaller leaves; mostly terminal inflorescences; a calyx comprising four lobes whilst that of Gustavia superba is entire; petals coloured pink throughout rather than white flushed pink; white rather than orange mesocarp "flesh" in the fruit.
...Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Gustavia acuminata
- Gustavia angustifolia
- Gustavia augusta
- Gustavia brachycarpa
- Gustavia coriacea
- Gustavia dodsonii
- Gustavia dubia
- Gustavia elliptica
- Gustavia erythrocarpa
- Gustavia excelsa
- Gustavia flagellata
- Gustavia fosteri
- Gustavia gentryi
- Gustavia gigantophylla
- Gustavia gracillima
- Gustavia gracillipes
- Gustavia grandibracteata
- Gustavia hexapetala
- Gustavia hubbardiorum
- Gustavia inakuama
- Gustavia johnclarkii
- Gustavia latifolia
- Gustavia longepetiolata
- Gustavia longifolia
- Gustavia longifuniculata
- Gustavia macarenensis
- Gustavia monocaulis
- Gustavia nana
- Gustavia occidentalis
- Gustavia parviflora
- Gustavia paucisperma
- Gustavia petiolata
- Gustavia poeppigiana
- Gustavia pubescens
- Gustavia pulchra
- Gustavia romeroi
- Gustavia santanderiensis
- Gustavia serrata
- Gustavia sessilis
- Gustavia speciosa
- Gustavia superba
- Gustavia tejerae
- Gustavia terminaliflora
- Gustavia verticillata

