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Guettarda coombsii Urban; tas taap, tas taamp

Shrub or small tree; bark smooth, mottled shades of gray; leaves opposite, simple, broadly elliptic, base cordate, margin entire, apex acute, numerous regularly-spaced secondary veins connected via many percurrent tertiary veins.

Additional images:

• leaves
• senescent leaves (dry season, photographed at Botanical Gardin Alfredo Marin, Q.R.)
• stipule
• bark (smaller trunk)
• bark
• bark (larger trunk, photographed at Botanical Gardin Alfredo Marin, Q.R.)