Taxon:
Gustavia speciosa (Kunth) DC.
Summary
Place of publication:
Prodr. 3:289. 1828
Verified:
10/10/2012
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Common names
Spanish (Colombia)
chupo – Spanish (Peru)
chopé –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Colombia | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Ecuador | | |
2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Western South America | Colombia | | |
2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Western South America | Peru | Loreto | |
Native
Southern America
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WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Colombia, Ecuador
Cultivated
Southern America
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WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Colombia, Peru [Loreto]
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Human food | fruit | | Prance, G. T. & S. A. Mori. 1979. Lecythidaceae - Part I. The actinomorphic-flowered New World Lecythidaceae (Asteranthos, Gustavia, Grias, Allantoma, Cariniana). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 21(1):165-170. URL: http://www.nybg.org/botany/ofn/ |