Field notes, v1308
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Azarene, H. 1991 July 28 log is a marked GAPS project tree, Pentaclethra maculoba ; Julie Denslow should know when this tree fell. The breeding cavity is now filled w/ large dead leaves and although there is a little water, no evidence of frog breeding. There are numerous leaves of Philodendron inaequilaterum (Araceae) hanging right over the cavity. The overall site is heavily overgrown, and I got moderately severe chemical burns from some plant nearby. At CCH 750m the tree is a P. maculoba ; the plant w/ the old jelly grass attached is Syngonium sp. (Araceae). The large immature palm arching over the tip-up is Welfia georgii (Palmae) as Wendy thought. There is another small palm sapling (Bactris werdlana) growing straight from the tip-up through the syngonium w/ its fronds on the opposite end of the water-filled cavity. At CCH 210m the fallen tree is another P. maculoba (Mimosaceae); the marked plant near one end of the water-filled cavity is P. inaequilaterum. Orlando pointed out that P. maculoba is the commonest forest tree, the commonest treefall, and that its wood is resistant to decomposition; also it has very little buttressing. See Hartshorn's (1983) account in Costa Rican Natural History -- sounds like the range of A. calcarifer might match one of the three disjunct populations of P. maculoba. At 1444h I grabbed a subadult Khadinea decosta as it crawled into leaf litter on the CCH; it thrustled