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Lecythis ollaria (lecythis)

Synonyms: Eschweilera cordata; Lecythis cordata; Lecythis nobilis

Wikipedia Abstract

Lecythis ollaria is a species of tree found growing in forests in Brazil and Venezuela. The tree is known locally as coco de mono, and accumulates selenium in its tissues.
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Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Specific Gravity [2]  0.72
Structure [1]  Tree

Predators

Lepidosaphes cocculi (cocculus scale)[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2Jérôme Chave, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Timothy R. Baker, Tomás A. Easdale, Hans ter Steege, Campbell O. Webb, 2006. Regional and phylogenetic variation of wood density across 2,456 neotropical tree species. Ecological Applications 16(6), 2356 - 2367
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0