Overview
Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Monkey Pot, Sapucaia
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]
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
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Theanae
()
- Thorne Ex Reveal, 1993
- Order:
Ericales
()
- 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:
Lecythis
()
- Loefling, 1758
- Specific epithet:
pisonis
- Cambess.
- Botanical name: - Lecythis pisonis Cambess.
- Specific epithet:
pisonis
- Cambess.
- Genus:
Lecythis
(
- Tribe:
Lecythideae
(
- Subfamily:
Lecythidoideae
(
- Family:
Lecythidaceae
(
- Order:
Ericales
(
- Superorder:
Theanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Couroupita crenulata Miers • Couroupita lentula Miers • Lecythis amapaensis Ledoux • Lecythis amazonum Mart. Ex O. Berg • Lecythis densa Miers • Lecythis hoppiana R. Knuth • Lecythis marcgraaviana Miers • Lecythis ollaria Spruce • Lecythis ollaria Vell. • Lecythis para ënsis Huber Ex Ducke • Lecythis pilaris Miers • Lecythis pisonis usitata S. A. Mori & Prance • Lecythis setifera Miers • Lecythis sphaeroides Miers • Lecythis urnigera Mart. • Lecythis usitata Miers • Lecythis usitata var. paraensis R. Knuth • Lecythis usitata var. tenuifolia R. Knuth • Lecythis velloziana Miers • Pachylecythis egleri Ledoux
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 2006
Similar Species
Members of the genus Lecythis
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 6 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
L. minor (Lecythis) · L. ollaria (Lecythis) · L. pisonis (Monkey Pot) · L. pisonis usitata (Monkey-Pot) · L. zabucaja (Zabucaya Nut) · L. zabucajo (Paradise Nut)
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Further Reading
- A naturalist in Brazil; the record of a year's observation of her flora, her fauna, and her people, by Konrad Guenther. .. translated by Bernard Miall. .. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. url p. 394.
- The Marine Mammal Commission compendium of selected treaties, international agreements, and other relevant documents on marine resources, wildlife, and the environment / compiled by Richard L. Wallace. Washington, D.C.: The Commission; 1994 url p. 518.
- Lo Hsien-shui. 1983. Lecythidaceae. In: Fang Wen-pei & Chang Che-yung, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 52(2): 121-125.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2007. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed March 24, 2007.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 12, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 25, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
- LecyPages: The Lecythidaceae Pages. Release date: October 17, 2006
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
- The Lecythidaceae Pages 2006.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 25, 2007:
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
- SysTax, Herbarium Universitat Ulm
- SysTax, Manaus, Herbario da Universidade do Amazonas
- SysTax, SysTax
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3422543
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Lec-155
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14690820
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:597315-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 749032
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]
