As Lecythidaceae (família da castanha-do-Pará) são árvores tropicais de planície que atingiram sua maior diversidade em espécies ... de 50% de todas as espécies neotropicais de Lecythidaceae são encontradas na Amazônia, sendo a Amazônia central ... norte de Manaus apresenta 38 espécies diferentes de Lecythidaceae. Além disso, um grande número de espécies de Lecythidaceae têm o centro de distribuição na província floristica das Guianas. As espécies de Lecythidaceae com flores actinomórficas são mais numerosas no noroeste ...
Tópico(s): Fern and Epiphyte Biology
1990 - Sociedade Botânica do Brasil | Acta Botanica Brasilica

Éverton Leandro de França Ferreira, Jocélia Pereira de Carvalho Oliveira, Mônica Regina Silva de Araújo, Mahendra Rai, Mariana Helena Chaves,
The family Lecythidaceae has about 25 genera and 400 identified species, which are distributed especially in the pantropical region, mostly found ... Eschweilera, with the large number of species in Lecythidaceae. The present review compiles information since the 1934s ... of ethnopharmacology, and chemical constituents of species of Lecythidaceae, as well as a summary of the bioactivities ... on ethnopharmacology, and chemical constituents of species of Lecythidaceae were gathered from electronic databases including Web of ...
Tópico(s): Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
2021 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Wilma T. Ormond, Maria Celia B Pinheiro, Alicia R. Cortella De Castells,
... studied, although allogamous, is self-compatible. The Neotropical Lecythidaceae have been studied mainly with reference to the ... basing her studies on the vascular system of Lecythidaceae species, concluded that this family the application of ... studied the pollination of six Amazonian species of Lecythidaceae from five genera, describing the complex androphore structure ... Mori (1977) discussed androecium and fruit terminology of Lecythidaceae and commented on the similarity between the genera ... Mori et al. (1978) classified the New World Lecythidaceae three basic types according to floral structures: those ...
Tópico(s): Banana Cultivation and Research
1981 - Missouri Botanical Garden | Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Ashley M. Thomson, Oscar M. Vargas, Christopher W. Dick,
The tropical tree family Lecythidaceae has enormous ecological and economic importance in the Amazon basin. Lecythidaceae species can be difficult to identify without molecular data, ... poorly resolved.To develop informative genetic markers for Lecythidaceae, we used genome skimming to de novo assemble ... Brazil nut tree (Bertholletia excelsa) and 23 other Lecythidaceae species. Indices of nucleotide diversity and phylogenetic signal ... broad array of ecological and evolutionary studies in Lecythidaceae.
Tópico(s): Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
2018 - Botanical Society of America | Applications in Plant Sciences
Cynthia M. Morton, Ghillean Τ. Prance, Scott A. Mori, Lucy G. Thorburn,
... S. A. & Thorburn, L. G. : Recircumscription of the Lecythidaceae. – Taxon 47: 817‐827. 1998. – ISSN 0040‐0262. The phylogenetic relationships of the genera of Lecythidaceae and representatives of Scytopetalaceae were assessed using cladistic ... data. The results show that the pantropical family Lecythidaceae is paraphyletic. Support was found for the monophyly ... Scytopetalaceae should be treated as a subfamily of Lecythidaceae, while Napoleonaea and Crateranthus (the latter based solely ... features) should remain in the subfamily Napoleonaeoideae. The Lecythidaceae are recircumscribed, and Asteranthos and members of Scytopetalaceae ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
1998 - Wiley | Taxon
A família Lecythidaceae apresenta grande diversidade em matas higrófilas localizadas abaixo de 1000 m de altitude. Poucas espécies ocorrem em cerrados, ... O Brasil, onde ocorrem 54% das espécies de Lecythidaceae do Novo Mundo, tem mais espécies desta família ... Euglossini parecem ser muito importantes na evolução de Lecythidaceae com flores zigomorfas. As flores de Lecythidaceae oferecem três recompensas aos seus polinizadores: pólen não ... muito para pesquisar sobre biologia da reprodução em Lecythidaceae. Estudos sobre a composição química do pólen, a ...
Tópico(s): Fern and Epiphyte Biology
1987 - Sociedade Botânica do Brasil | Acta Botanica Brasilica
Ya‐Yi Huang, Scott A. Mori, Lawrence M. Kelly,
Lecythidaceae subfam. Lecythidoideae is limited to the Neotropics and is the only naturally occurring subfamily of Lecythidaceae in the New World. A subset of genera ... classification presented in the latest monograph of neotropical Lecythidaceae and make recommendations for a revised generic classification of the Bertholletia clade of Lecythidaceae.
Tópico(s): Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
2015 - Q15088586 | Phytotaxa
... in 16 individuals from eight species in the Lecythidaceae and a Sapotaceae outgroup. We described patterns of ... was little evidence for indel homoplasy within the Lecythidaceae. Likelihood ratio tests applied to the entire phylogenetic ... much as 10% and 15% divergence within the Lecythidaceae. Deviations from rate homogeneity in the two taxa ... than nucleotide changes to experience homoplasy within the Lecythidaceae. These results support a neutral interpretation of cpDNA ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2003 - Oxford University Press | Molecular Biology and Evolution
Cynthia M. Morton, Scott A. Mori, Ghillean Τ. Prance, Ken G. Karol, Mark W. Chase,
... morphological support for subfamilial relationships and monophyly of Lecythidaceae. Initially we needed to establish relationships of Lecythidaceae among other dicot families. To complete this we ... of the asterid III grouping. This analysis revealed Lecythidaceae to be paraphyletic and indicated potential outgroup relationships ... Oubanguia . Napoleonaeoideae are sister to the rest of Lecythidaceae.
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
1997 - Wiley | American Journal of Botany
Três espécies nova de Lecythidaceae, Cariniana parvifolia, Eschweilera complanata e E.mattos-silvae são descritas e ilustradas, e suas afinidades com outras Lecythidaceae são discutidas. Uma chave para as espécies conhecidas de Lecythidaceae no leste do Brasil é fornecida. São apresentadas ... distribuição, conservação e problemas taxonômicos das espécies de Lecythidaceae do leste brasileiro.
Tópico(s): Fern and Epiphyte Biology
1995 - | Boletim de Botânica
Scott A. Mori, Ghillean Τ. Prance,
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 ... tropical forest structure and compo-Mori ilies of Lecythidaceae but to tropical trees in general.
Tópico(s): Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
1987 - Missouri Botanical Garden | Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Pamella Carolline Marques dos Reis Reis, Leonardo Pequeno Reis, Ademir Roberto Ruschel, José Natalino Macedo Silva, J. O. P. de Carvalho, Waldenei Travassos de Queiroz,
Dynamics of Lecythidaceae species were evaluated 13 years after logging in a dense tropical rain forest located in the municipality of ... na densidade e área basal de espécies de Lecythidaceae no leste da Amazônia. Analisou-se a dinâmica de espécies de Lecythidaceae 13 anos após a exploração madeireira, em uma ...
Tópico(s): Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
2013 - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARANÁ | FLORESTA
Ayesha Kiran, Satej Magdum, rakant,
... evaluation of the bark of Careya arborea Roxb (Lecythidaceae). Initially, organoleptic evaluation was carried out followed by ... microscopic characteristics of powdered bark of C. arborea (Lecythidaceae). Under physical evaluation; total ash, sulphated ash, water ... of phytoconstituents in the bark of C. arboreaRoxb (Lecythidaceae). Key words: Careya arborea, lecythidaceae, microscopical characteristics, T.S., physical evaluation.
Tópico(s): Botanical Studies and Applications
2009 - Academic Journals | Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy
Scott A. Mori, Chi‐Hua Tsou, Chi‐Chih Wu, Bodil Cronholm, Arne A. Anderberg,
The Lecythidaceae comprise a pantropical family best known for the edible seeds of the Brazil nut ( Bertholletia excelsa ) and ... and New Worlds that have been associated with Lecythidaceae. Our molecular tree agrees with the recognition of Napoleonaeaceae and Scytopetalaceae. Within the Lecythidaceae, there is molecular support for recognizing three subfamilies: ...
Tópico(s): Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
2007 - Wiley | American Journal of Botany

Leandro Valle Ferreira, Ghillean Τ. Prance,
... families in relation to FIV were Burseraceae, Chrysobalanaceae, Lecythidaceae, Myristicaceae, Bombacaceae, Fabaceae and Mimosaceae in the 3 ha of primary forest, while Burseraceae, Lecythidaceae, Sapotaceae, Arecaceae and Cecropiaceae were the most important ... IVI, in the primary forest, while Eschweilera grandiflora (Lecythidaceae), Protium apiculatum (Burseraceae) and Bertholletia excelsa (Lecythidaceae) were the most important species in the secondary ...
Tópico(s): Rangeland and Wildlife Management
1999 - Oxford University Press | Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
... is given on the circumscription and subdivision of Lecythidaceae and the position of Barringtonia. All aspects, also ... even three, as Knuth proposed. The subdivision of Lecythidaceae appears to meet with great difficulty. It does ... structure is possibly found in other genera of Lecythidaceae; it appears highly desirable that embryogeny of all ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
1967 - National Herbarium of the Netherlands | Blumea - Biodiversity Evolution and Biogeography of Plants
Oscar M. Vargas, Christopher W. Dick,
The Neotropical subfamily of Lecythidaceae (Lecythidoideae) is a clade of 10 genera with an estimated number of 232 species. Lecythidaceae is the third most abundant family of trees ...
Tópico(s): Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
2020 - Springer International Publishing | Fascinating life sciences
Oscar M. Vargas, Myriam Heuertz, Stephen A. Smith, Christopher W. Dick,
... for ten species of the Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae), identified a set of putatively orthologous nuclear loci ... markers (i.e. 354) will significantly improve the Lecythidaceae species tree. The framework described here will be ...
Tópico(s): Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
2019 - Elsevier BV | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Scott A. Mori, Nathan P. Smith, Ya‐Yi Huang, Ghillean Τ. Prance, Lawrence M. Kelly, CAROL CAROLLO MATOS,
The morphological features of all clades of neotropical Lecythidaceae subfam. Lecythidoideae (Brazil nut family) with actinomorphic androecia ( ... key to the 16 clades of New World Lecythidaceae is presented.
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2015 - Q15088586 | Phytotaxa

David F. Soria‐Hernanz, John M. Braverman, Matthew B. Hamilton,
... 4, and rps14-cob) for 21 samples from Lecythidaceae were sequenced. Three chloroplast regions (rpl20-5′rps12, ... rate heterogeneity across the 2 organelle genomes in Lecythidaceae. The lineage effects observed here were uncoupled from ...
Tópico(s): Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
2008 - Oxford University Press | Molecular Biology and Evolution

Willian Moura de Aguiar, Maria Cristina Gaglianone,
... naturais. Como observado para outras espécies zigomórficas de Lecythidaceae, a complexa morfologia floral restringe os visitantes a ... outros trabalhos sobre Lecythis e outros gêneros de Lecythidaceae na região amazônica.
Tópico(s): Plant Parasitism and Resistance
2008 - Entomological Society of Brazil | Revista Brasileira de Entomologia
... representative species from all 10 Neotropical genera of Lecythidaceae subfamily Lecythidoideae and from the Paleotropical Barringtonia (Lecythidaceae subfamily Planchonioideae) was studied. The seed coat is ...
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2002 - | Zhōngyāng yánjiūyuàn zhíwùxué huikān/Zhōngyāng yánjiūyuàn zhíwùxué huikān
... the floral morphology and biology of Napoleonaea vogelii (Lecythidaceae), a cauliflorous understory tree of lowland humid rain ... RESUMES Au Gabon, nous avons étudié Napoleonaea vogelii (Lecythidaceae), un arbre cauliflore du sous bois de la ...
Tópico(s): African Botany and Ecology Studies
2001 - Wiley | Biotropica
Amy Berkov, Barbara Meurer‐Grimes, Kenneth L. Purzycki,
... host trees belonging to the Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae) inspired a yearlong rearing project in the lowland ... French Guiana. Branches severed from five species of Lecythidaceae yielded 1813 cerambycids belonging to 37 species. Two ...
Tópico(s): Coleoptera: Cerambycidae studies
2000 - Wiley | Biotropica
Amy Berkov, Barbara Meurer‐Grimes, Kenneth L. Purzycki,
... host trees belonging to the Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae) inspired a yearlong rearing project in the lowland ... French Guiana. Branches severed from five species of Lecythidaceae yielded 1813 cerambycids belonging to 37 species. Two ...
Tópico(s): Coleoptera: Cerambycidae studies
2000 - Wiley | Biotropica
Amy Berkov, Gérard Tavakilian,
... their host plants in the Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae) inspired a year-long rearing project in the ... French Guiana. Branches severed from five species of Lecythidaceae yielded 1813 cerambycids belonging to 37 species. Three ...
Tópico(s): Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
1999 - Oxford University Press | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Jette T. Knudsen, Scott A. Mori,
... chromatography-mass spectrometry for 12 species of Neotropical Lecythidaceae in the genera Corythophora, Couratari, Couroupita, Eschweilera, Grias, ... directing male euglossine bees to those species of Lecythidaceae providing nectar as a pollinator reward. The combination ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
1996 - Wiley | Biotropica
... brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) and an emergent Lecythidaceae, Cariniana micrantha. The very hard and thick pericarps ... intima entre Macacos Prego (Cebus apella) e uma Lecythidaceae emergente, Cariniana micrantha, a qual ocorre em grande ...
Tópico(s): Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
1991 - Wiley | Biotropica
Sonia Yarsick, Nerida Xena de Enrech, Nelson Ramírez, Getulio Agostini,
Floral biology has been studied in relatively few Lecythidaceae, despite their ecological importance in the Neotropics. Only ... studies of anthesis behavior in tropical plants, including Lecythidaceae, have been carried out. Notably, Mori et al. (. ...
Tópico(s): Plant Parasitism and Resistance
1986 - Missouri Botanical Garden | Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
... germination, and early seedling survival of Gustavia superba (Lecythidaceae) through field experiments in a tropical moist forest ... in seedling establishment of Gustavia superba (Kunth) Berg (Lecythidaceae), a
Tópico(s): Plant Parasitism and Resistance
1985 - Wiley | Biotropica