Licania
Licania (family Chrysobalanaceae) A genus of small, evergreen, rain-forest trees whose fruit is a drupe and which yield useful but siliceous timber. There are 171 species, all found in tropical America, except for 2–3 in western Malesia and one in Africa.
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