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A Guide to Collecting Lecythidaceae

1987; Missouri Botanical Garden; Volume: 74; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/2399402

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Scott A. Mori, Ghillean Τ. Prance,

Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies

bstract fruits, Lecythidaceae present specialized nformative collections of Lecythidaceae for use in taxonomy are provided.The Lecythidaceae sensu lato are a pantropical and bark, that are not preserved on the herbarfamily of small to very large trees.The family ium sheet.Careful notes on habitat are usually includes four subfamilies: Planchonioideae with lacking and even flower color is often not re-55 species in six genera distributed through trop-corded in a manner that can be interpreted by Malay Worst Pacific Islands; Foetidioideae, with five species under such extreme heat and pressure that they in a single genus distributed in Madagascar, In-become so carbonized that their structure is imdia, and Malaysia; Napoleonaeoideae, with 1 1 possible to determine.Even fruits are collected species in two genera distributed in West Africa in such a way that their taxonomic features and and one species in the upper Rio Negro of Ama-morphological variation are difficult to interpret, zonia; and the Lecythidoideae, with about 206 Finally, few collections of flowers and fruits are species in ten genera distributed through tropical unequivocally documented as having come from America from Veracruz, Mexico to southern the same tree.1979).Another problem is the continued collection Because our collecting experience has been most-of herbarium material of the same taxa from the ly in the Neotropics, this essay emphasizes the same area by the same collectors.However, some Lecythidoideae.However, the methods de-duplication is necessary to voucher ecological scribed arc applicable not only to other subfam-studies of tropical forest structure and compo-Mori ilies of Lecythidaceae but to tropical trees in general.