Cordia decandra

Species of flowering plant

Cordia decandra

Cordia decandra flowering in Cuesta La Totora, Freirina.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Asterids
Order:  | Boraginales
Family:  | Boraginaceae
Genus:  | Cordia
Species:  |

C. decandra

Binomial name
Cordia decandra

Hook. & Arn.

Cordia decandra, commonly known in Spanish as carbón and carbonillo, is a species of woody plant in the borage family, Boraginaceae. It is a native shrub in the southern reaches of the Atacama Desert in Chile. More specifically, it grows mainly in the dry hills of the Atacama and Coquimbo Regions, and is not known to grow south of latitude 30 S.[1] It grows from sea-level up to 1,500 m AMSL.[1] It produces a small edible fruit that can be eaten dry or toasted.[1]

## References

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1. ^ a b c Pardo B., Oriana; Pizarro, José Luis (2014). Chile: Plantas alimentarias Prehispánicas (in Spanish) (2015 ed.). Arica, Chile: Ediciones Parina. pp. 178–179\. ISBN 9789569120022.178-179&rft.edition=2015&rft.pub=Ediciones+Parina&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=9789569120022&rft.aulast=Pardo+B.&rft.aufirst=Oriana&rft.au=Pizarro,+José+Luis&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Cordia+decandra" class="Z3988">

## External links

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* Media related to Cordia decandra at Wikimedia Commons
* Data related to Cordia decandra at Wikispecies

Taxon identifiers

Cordia decandra|

* Wikidata: Q15576553
* Wikispecies: Cordia decandra
* CoL: YBB8
* EoL: 5349633
* GBIF: 5662425
* GRIN: 11476
* iNaturalist: 563983
* IPNI: 114093-1
* IUCN: 210155673
* NCBI: 246522
* Open Tree of Life: 116577
* Plant List: kew-2736707
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:114093-1
* Tropicos: 4001524
* WFO: wfo-0000620411

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