MASTER KEY- TREES OF MONTEVERDE

Red opaque or yellow translucent dots and dashes, entire or weakly crenate, obscure lateral veins, long pointed leaf bud, leaf margins inrolled in bud, meager black latex in stem

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Myrsinaceae

Translucent dots, aromatic odor, petiole often swollen at base and/or apex, often crenate

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Rutaceae (Peltostigma, Stauranthus, Zanthoxylum)

Twigs grooved and ridged (asymmetric), mixed alternate and opposite leaves, entire, weak aromatic odor

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Lauraceae (Beilschmiedia, Persea)

Sap red in trunk, clear in petiole, distichous, leaf often paler below with stellate hairs, pseudo-whirled branching- Myristicaceae (Virola)

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