User:DavidAnstiss/Simira salvadorensis

Simira salvadorensis ("John crow redwood") is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in the tropical parts of Central America and parts of Mexico.

Taxonomy
It was first described by American botanist Paul Carpenter Standley as Calderonia salvadorensis in J. Washington Acad. Sci. 13: 290 in 1923, it was then first published as Simira salvadorensis by Julian Alfred Steyermark in Mem. New York Bot. Gard. vol.23 on page 307 in 1972.

It is endemic to the countries of Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and parts of Mexico.

native to Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Mexico. Within Guatemala this species is found in Petén, Alta Verapaz, Izabal, Escuintla, Guatemala, Suchitepéquez and Retalhuleu (Davidse et al. 2015).

It is found in the Maya Forest.

At an altitude of up to 300 m above sea level.

John Crow Redwood Simira salvadorensis pollinated by moths Construction

Also known as 'chakte-kok' in Mexico.

Ecology
Evergreen tree measuring 20 m in height and forming an important part of the middle stratum of the high or medium lowland forests dominated by tree species Brosimum alicastrum and associated with genera such as Terminalia, Dialium and Guatteria. It grows in black rendzine soils deriving from calcareous material.

Threats
Mesoamerica lowland forests are threatened by logging and agriculture. The plant is widely used for wood and firewood.

Phototoxic secondary metabolites have been found in the flower head of (Asteraceae) Flaveria trinervia and bark of Simira salvadorensis.