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Pterodon emarginatus (Sucupira Branca; Sucupira; Sucupira-Branca; Sicupira; Pessoek; Fava-de-santo-inacio)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Pterodon emarginatus (Portuguese: Sucupira-branca) is a Brazilian legume of the Cerrado. Widely distributed in the west of Minas Gerais and in Goiás, Brazil, the fruit oil of this plant is used to deter skin penetration by Schistosome cercariae.
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Attributes

Specific Gravity [1]  0.88

Predators

Amazona xanthops (Yellow-faced Amazon)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jérôme 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
♦ 2del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
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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