Caryodendron

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Caryodendron
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Caryodendreae
Genus: Caryodendron
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Type species
Caryodendron orinocense
Synonyms [1]

Caryodendron is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1860. [2] [3] The genus includes C. orinocense , known as the Inchi tree or Tacay nut. It is native to Central America and South America. [1] [4] [5] [6] [7] They are dioecious trees. [8]

Species [1]
  1. Caryodendron amazonicum Ducke - Amazonas in Brazil
  2. Caryodendron angustifolium Standl. - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia
  3. Caryodendron janeirense Müll.Arg. - Rio de Janeiro
  4. Caryodendron orinocense H.Karst - Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Karsten, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann. 1860. Florae Columbiae terraumque adjacentium specimina selecta in peregrinatione duodecim annorum observata delineavit et descripsit 1: 91-92 descriptions in Latin, commentary in German
  3. ↑ Tropicos
  4. ↑ Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  5. ↑ Burger, W.C. & M.J. Huft. 1995. Family 113. Euphorbiaceae. En: W. C. Burger (ed.), Flora Costaricensis. Fieldiana, Botany, n.s. 36: 1–169.
  6. ↑ Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2015-08-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
  7. ↑ Webster, G. L. & M.J. Huft. 1988. Revised synopsis of Panamanian Euphorbiaceae. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 75(3): 1087–1144
  8. ↑ Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Malpighiales. Germany, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013.


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