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Taxon:
Lecythis minor
Jacq.
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Lecythis
Family:
Lecythidaceae
Subfamily:
Lecythidoideae
Nomen number:
70395
Place of publication:
Select. stirp. amer. hist. 168, t. 109. 1763
Verified:
01/05/1995
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0
(
0
active,
0
available)
in National Plant Germplasm System.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Lecythis elliptica
Kunth
No images
Reference(s)
Duke, J. A.
1989. Handbook of Nuts CRC Press.
IPGRI.
New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/databases/new_world_fruits_database/search.html
Mori, S. A. & G. T. Prance.
1990. Lecythidaceae - Part II. The zygomorphic-flowered New World genera (
Couroupita
,
Corythophora
,
Bertholletia
,
Couratari
,
Eschweilera
, &
Lecythis
). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 21(2):317-318.
URL:
http://www.nybg.org/botany/ofn/
Mori, S. A. et al.
Lecythidaceae pages (on-line resource).
URL:
http://sweetgum.nybg.org/lp/taxon.php?irn=208108
Personal Care Products Council.
INCI
URL:
http://www.personalcarecouncil.org/public/what-inci
Common names
Spanish
coco de mono –
Reference(s)
Distribution
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Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
1
Native
Southern America
Northern South America
Venezuela
1
Native
Southern America
Western South America
Colombia
2
Cultivated
also cult.
Native
Southern America
NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Venezuela
WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Colombia
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Economic Uses
Usage
Type
Note
Reference
Environmental
ornamental
Duke, J. A.
1989. Handbook of Nuts CRC Press.
Human food
nut
some evidence of toxicity, especially of plants growing in soils with high concentration of Se fide F Neotrop
Mori, S. A. & G. T. Prance.
1990. Lecythidaceae - Part II. The zygomorphic-flowered New World genera (
Couroupita
,
Corythophora
,
Bertholletia
,
Couratari
,
Eschweilera
, &
Lecythis
). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 21(2):317-318.
URL:
http://www.nybg.org/botany/ofn/
Name
References