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Byrsonima verbascifolia

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1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence: Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Fire-performance conditions: No test or rating condition is normalized.
Fire ecology context: No section-reviewed fire-ecology context is normalized.
Placement evidence: 0 source placement records; source schemes remain separate.
Evidence regions: Global
Maintenance: No sourced horticultural maintenance assertion is normalized; fire-test conditions do not supply maintenance advice.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution: No state distribution is normalized.
Native range: No current cited or legacy state native range is normalized.
Introduced / established: No introduced or established row is normalized; that does not prove native status.
USDA hardiness: No hardiness value is normalized.

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

Legal-list status: Set a location for an exact legal-list result; source silence is not clearance.
Seed-list status: Set a location to compare the separate state noxious-weed seed layer.
Reported invasive here: No ecological invasive report is normalized; that does not prove noninvasiveness.
Broader regional context: Aggregate AK, HI, and L48 evidence is shown only as regional context, never as an exact-state finding.
Federal context: Federal designations remain separate from state legal-list results.

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The status above is computed from the cited rows below: independent recommendations can support a fire-resistant result, an avoid row can produce keep-away, and disagreement stays visible as conflict. Placement notes preserve each source’s own scheme rather than translating unlike rules into one scale. This is evidence about a plant, not permission to plant it in every part of the defensible space; Zone 0 remains noncombustible.

Form: shrub
Region: Brazil
Rated in: Global
Family: Malpighiaceae
Evidence: 16 cited sources

The evidence

Grouped by what each source concluded. Primary evidence rated the plant itself (a lab, field program, or original curation); corroboration compiled or republished another source's rating and resolves to its root lineage.

Listed without a rating (16)

FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database — Dryad / Global Ecology and Biogeography · Dryad version 9 · original source Corroboration Trait database lineage: meta-aggregator

16 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.
- “time to flaming (s): 3.5” · score 3.5 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 12034; Ignitability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site SantosMoreira2018-1; sampling september. Primary study SantosMoreira2018: Santos, M. M., Batista, A. C., de Carvalho, E. V., da Silva, F. d. C., Pedro, C. M., & Giongo, M. (2018). Relationships between moisture content and flammability of campestral Cerrado species in Jalapão. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Agrárias, 13, 1-9.
- “time to flaming (s): 5.8” · score 5.8 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 12040; Ignitability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site SantosMoreira2018-1; sampling september. Primary study SantosMoreira2018: Santos, M. M., Batista, A. C., de Carvalho, E. V., da Silva, F. d. C., Pedro, C. M., & Giongo, M. (2018). Relationships between moisture content and flammability of campestral Cerrado species in Jalapão. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Agrárias, 13, 1-9.
- “time to flaming (s): 10.2” · score 10.2 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 12046; Ignitability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site SantosMoreira2018-1; sampling september. Primary study SantosMoreira2018: Santos, M. M., Batista, A. C., de Carvalho, E. V., da Silva, F. d. C., Pedro, C. M., & Giongo, M. (2018). Relationships between moisture content and flammability of campestral Cerrado species in Jalapão. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Agrárias, 13, 1-9.
- “time to flaming (s): 16.2” · score 16.2 (FLAMITS — time to flaming (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 12052; Ignitability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site SantosMoreira2018-1; sampling september. Primary study SantosMoreira2018: Santos, M. M., Batista, A. C., de Carvalho, E. V., da Silva, F. d. C., Pedro, C. M., & Giongo, M. (2018). Relationships between moisture content and flammability of campestral Cerrado species in Jalapão. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Agrárias, 13, 1-9.
- “burning duration (s): 15.4” · score 15.4 (FLAMITS — burning duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 12058; Sustainability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site SantosMoreira2018-1; sampling september. Primary study SantosMoreira2018: Santos, M. M., Batista, A. C., de Carvalho, E. V., da Silva, F. d. C., Pedro, C. M., & Giongo, M. (2018). Relationships between moisture content and flammability of campestral Cerrado species in Jalapão. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Agrárias, 13, 1-9.
- “burning duration (s): 20” · score 20 (FLAMITS — burning duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 12064; Sustainability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site SantosMoreira2018-1; sampling september. Primary study SantosMoreira2018: Santos, M. M., Batista, A. C., de Carvalho, E. V., da Silva, F. d. C., Pedro, C. M., & Giongo, M. (2018). Relationships between moisture content and flammability of campestral Cerrado species in Jalapão. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Agrárias, 13, 1-9.
- “burning duration (s): 24.8” · score 24.8 (FLAMITS — burning duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 12070; Sustainability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site SantosMoreira2018-1; sampling september. Primary study SantosMoreira2018: Santos, M. M., Batista, A. C., de Carvalho, E. V., da Silva, F. d. C., Pedro, C. M., & Giongo, M. (2018). Relationships between moisture content and flammability of campestral Cerrado species in Jalapão. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Agrárias, 13, 1-9.
- “burning duration (s): 19.4” · score 19.4 (FLAMITS — burning duration (s))
  
  FLAMITS record 12076; Sustainability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site SantosMoreira2018-1; sampling september. Primary study SantosMoreira2018: Santos, M. M., Batista, A. C., de Carvalho, E. V., da Silva, F. d. C., Pedro, C. M., & Giongo, M. (2018). Relationships between moisture content and flammability of campestral Cerrado species in Jalapão. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Agrárias, 13, 1-9.
- “flame height (cm): 20” · score 20 (FLAMITS — flame height (cm))
  
  FLAMITS record 12082; Combustibility measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site SantosMoreira2018-1; sampling september. Primary study SantosMoreira2018: Santos, M. M., Batista, A. C., de Carvalho, E. V., da Silva, F. d. C., Pedro, C. M., & Giongo, M. (2018). Relationships between moisture content and flammability of campestral Cerrado species in Jalapão. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Agrárias, 13, 1-9.
- “flame height (cm): 19.9” · score 19.9 (FLAMITS — flame height (cm))
  
  FLAMITS record 12088; Combustibility measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site SantosMoreira2018-1; sampling september. Primary study SantosMoreira2018: Santos, M. M., Batista, A. C., de Carvalho, E. V., da Silva, F. d. C., Pedro, C. M., & Giongo, M. (2018). Relationships between moisture content and flammability of campestral Cerrado species in Jalapão. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Agrárias, 13, 1-9.
- “flame height (cm): 19.6” · score 19.6 (FLAMITS — flame height (cm))
  
  FLAMITS record 12094; Combustibility measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site SantosMoreira2018-1; sampling september. Primary study SantosMoreira2018: Santos, M. M., Batista, A. C., de Carvalho, E. V., da Silva, F. d. C., Pedro, C. M., & Giongo, M. (2018). Relationships between moisture content and flammability of campestral Cerrado species in Jalapão. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Agrárias, 13, 1-9.
- “flame height (cm): 18.2” · score 18.2 (FLAMITS — flame height (cm))
  
  FLAMITS record 12100; Combustibility measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site SantosMoreira2018-1; sampling september. Primary study SantosMoreira2018: Santos, M. M., Batista, A. C., de Carvalho, E. V., da Silva, F. d. C., Pedro, C. M., & Giongo, M. (2018). Relationships between moisture content and flammability of campestral Cerrado species in Jalapão. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Agrárias, 13, 1-9.
- “ignition frequency (%): 50” · score 50 (FLAMITS — ignition frequency (%))
  
  FLAMITS record 12106; Ignitability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site SantosMoreira2018-1; sampling september. Primary study SantosMoreira2018: Santos, M. M., Batista, A. C., de Carvalho, E. V., da Silva, F. d. C., Pedro, C. M., & Giongo, M. (2018). Relationships between moisture content and flammability of campestral Cerrado species in Jalapão. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Agrárias, 13, 1-9.
- “ignition frequency (%): 50” · score 50 (FLAMITS — ignition frequency (%))
  
  FLAMITS record 12112; Ignitability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site SantosMoreira2018-1; sampling september. Primary study SantosMoreira2018: Santos, M. M., Batista, A. C., de Carvalho, E. V., da Silva, F. d. C., Pedro, C. M., & Giongo, M. (2018). Relationships between moisture content and flammability of campestral Cerrado species in Jalapão. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Agrárias, 13, 1-9.
- “ignition frequency (%): 50” · score 50 (FLAMITS — ignition frequency (%))
  
  FLAMITS record 12118; Ignitability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site SantosMoreira2018-1; sampling september. Primary study SantosMoreira2018: Santos, M. M., Batista, A. C., de Carvalho, E. V., da Silva, F. d. C., Pedro, C. M., & Giongo, M. (2018). Relationships between moisture content and flammability of campestral Cerrado species in Jalapão. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Agrárias, 13, 1-9.
- “ignition frequency (%): 50” · score 50 (FLAMITS — ignition frequency (%))
  
  FLAMITS record 12124; Ignitability measurement; plant part twigs; fuel live; predrying no; device epiradiator; site SantosMoreira2018-1; sampling september. Primary study SantosMoreira2018: Santos, M. M., Batista, A. C., de Carvalho, E. V., da Silva, F. d. C., Pedro, C. M., & Giongo, M. (2018). Relationships between moisture content and flammability of campestral Cerrado species in Jalapão. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Agrárias, 13, 1-9.

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