Dinizia excelsa
Dinizia excelsa ; Awaraimë ; Parakwa. Lorenzi is an canopy-emergent tropical rainforest tree species in the family Fabaceae.
It is found in Guyana, Suriname and Amazonia Brazil. Also recorded from the state of Acre by Lorenzi.
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 80cm-2 m, moderately to strongly buttressed, the buttresses to 4-5 m tall.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 on August 21, 2019, in a grove of Dinizia excelsa. 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. News of the discovery was first published in August 2019 in scientific journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
