peroba

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Another endemic timber species, Paratecoma peroba, is approaching extinction in the region.

Biological diversity in the Atlantic Forest 2008
Upon descending from the Serra into the valley we soon came to a large forest with a luxuriant edge of _peroba_ (a word originating, I believe, from the words _ipe_ and _roba_ in the _Tupi_ language), which was known in four different varieties: viz. the _peroba amarella_ (yellow), _parda_

Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894