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Interesting Facts
Description
Family Lecythidaceae
Trees
or shrubs
, evergreen
. Leaves alternate, usually crowded toward apices of branchlets
, shortly petiolate
; stipules usually absent; leaf blade
simple
. Flowers showy, borne in short, bracteate
racemes
or spikes, actinomorphic
or zygomorphic, bisexual
. Calyx with a campanulate
tube
adnate
to ovary; lobes
4-6, thick. Petals 4-6, free
, rarely absent. Stamens many, united
at base
into several whorls, often several sterile
, either monadelphous
and equally arranged around disk, or diadelphous
in 2 unequal bundles, outermost staminodial; anthers
basifixed
, 2-celled, opening by longitudinal
slits. Disk sometimes lobed
. Ovary inferior or semi-inferior, 2-6-loculed; ovules 1 to many per locule; placentation axile
; style terminal
, simple; stigma capitate. Fruit an indehiscent berry or operculate
capsule, often crowned by persistent
calyx lobes. Seed[s] 1 [to many]; endosperm absent.
About 20 genera and 450 species: tropical regions
of Africa, Asia, Australia, some Pacific islands, and South America; one genus and three species (one endemic) in China.[1]
Habitat
Ecology: Lowland semi-deciduous rainforest.[2].
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Theanae
()
- Thorne Ex Reveal, 1993
- Order:
Lecythidales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Lecythidaceae
()
- A. Rich., in J.B.G.M. Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1825, nom. cons.
- Brazil-Nut Family
- Subfamily:
Lecythidoideae
()
- Tribe:
Lecythideae
()
- Genus:
Eschweilera
()
- C.F.P. Martius ex A.P. de Candolle, 1828
- Subgenus:
coastal
()
- Specific epithet:
amplexifolia
- Mori
- Botanical name: - Eschweilera amplexifolia Mori
- Specific epithet:
amplexifolia
- Mori
- Subgenus:
coastal
(
- Genus:
Eschweilera
(
- Tribe:
Lecythideae
(
- Subfamily:
Lecythidoideae
(
- Family:
Lecythidaceae
(
- Order:
Lecythidales
(
- Superorder:
Theanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author
: S.A.Mori Publication
: Fl.
Neotrop. Monogr. 21(2):
210 1990
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 2006
Similar Species
Members of the genus Eschweilera
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
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Further Reading
- The World List of Threatened Trees WCMC, IUCN url p. 208.
- Lo Hsien-shui. 1983. Lecythidaceae. In: Fang Wen-pei & Chang Che-yung, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 52(2): 121-125.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Mitré, M. 1998. Eschweilera amplexifolia. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:
- Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7143308
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Lec-965
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:939641-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 939641-1
- IUCN ID: 208377
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1021193
Footnotes
- Haining Qin & Sir Ghillean (Iain) T. Prance "Lecythidaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 293. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Mitré, M. 1998. Eschweilera amplexifolia. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 01 February 2012. [back]
