Lecythis zabucajo

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 650 meters (0 to 2,133 feet).[2]

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Lecythis crassinoda Miers • Lecythis davisii Sandwith • Lecythis davisii var. gracilipes Eyma • Lecythis hians A. C. Sm. • Lecythis lecomtei Pamp. • Lecythis tumefacta Miers • Lecythis validissima Miers

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)

More Info

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Further Reading

• A manual of scientific terms, pronouncing, etymological, and explanatory, chiefly comprising terms in botany, natural history, anatomy, medicine, and veterinary science, with an appendix of specific names. Designed for the use of by Rev. James Stormonth Edinburgh, Maclachlan and Stewart, 1885 url p. 234.
• Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1897- url p. 29, p. 80.
• Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. [Orono, Me.: Maine State College, 1885-1953. url p. 226.
• C. E. Hobbs Botanical hand-book of common local, English, botanical and pharmacopial names arranged in alphabetical order, of most of the crude vegetable drugs, etc., in common use. Especially designed as a reference book for druggists and apothecaries. Comp. and pub. by Charles E. Hobbs. Boston, Printed by C.C. Roberts, 1876. url p. 185.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 44 2003 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 50, p. 90.
• Harmsworth's Universal encyclopedia, written by the leading authorities in every branch of knowledge and edited by J.A. Hammerton. London, Educational Bk. Co.[n.d.] url p. 5488.
• Inventory of seeds and plants imported / U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1914-1924. url p. 40, p. 92.
• List of intercepted plant pests / United States Department of Agriculture, Plant Quarantine and Control Administration. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O.], 1932- url p. 61.
• Practical forestry for beginners in forestry, agricultural students, woodland owners, and others desiring a general knowledge of the nature of the art, New York, D. Appleton and company, 1902. url p. 214, p. 279.
• Sturtevant's notes on edible plants / Edited by U.P. Hedrick. Albany: J.B. Lyon, 1919. url p. 330.
• The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 631.
• The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: the Americas IUCN url p. 279.
• The colony of British Honduras: its resources and prospects; with particular reference to its indigenous plants and economic productions / by D. Morris. London: Edward Stanford, 1883. url p. 114.
• 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 12, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 04, 2007:

• Herbier de la Guyane, Herbier de la Guyane
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• SysTax, Herbarium Universitat Ulm
• SysTax, SysTax

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2670186
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Lec-262
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14690698
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:597352-1
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 506156
• MoBot NameID: 17900363
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: LEZA2
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 46199

Footnotes

1. 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]
2. Mean = 46.630 meters (152.986 feet), Standard Deviation = 919.200 based on 62 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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