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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
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,028 meters (0 to 9,934 feet).[2]
Ecology:
Areas of lowland non-flooded forest
.[3].
List of Habitats
:
- 1 Forest
- 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
- 1.9 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane [more info]
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:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- 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
()
- Subfamily:
Lecythidoideae
(
- Family:
Lecythidaceae
(
- Order:
Ericales
(
- Superorder:
Theanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : S.A.Mori Publication : Selbyana 2(1): 37, pl. 11 1977
Similar Species
Members of the genus Gustavia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
G. augusta (Gustavia) · G. fosteri (Membrillo) · G. gracillima (Heaven Lotus) · G. superba (Membrillo)
More Info
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Further Reading
- The World List of Threatened Trees WCMC, IUCN url p. 253.
- 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-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- 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.
- Santiana, J. & Pitman, N. 2004. Gustavia dodsonii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Dec 27, 2011.
- The Lecythidaceae Pages 2006.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:
- GBIF-Sweden: Internation Botanical Collections (S)
- Herbarium of the University of Aarhus: The AAU Herbarium Database
- Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3422511
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Lec-1216
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:469382-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 114926-2
- IUCN ID: 212325
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1020550
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]
- Mean = 1,212.320 meters (3,977.428 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,385.730 based on 19 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
- Santiana, J. & Pitman, N. 2004. Gustavia dodsonii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 01 February 2012. ... [back]
