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Acioa longipendula (egg nut)

Synonyms: Couepia longipendula (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The tropical rainforest tree Couepia longipendula is known by the common names egg nut, castanha de galinha, and pendula nut. It is found in the Amazon. Its nuts are used as a food source in rural South America, especially in Brazil. The nuts are useful for their oil.
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Attributes

Specific Gravity [1]  0.94
Structure [2]  Tree

Providers

Pollinated by 
Phyllostomus discolor (pale spear-nosed bat)[3]

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
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Phyllostomus discolor, Gary G. Kwiecinski, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 801, pp. 1–11 (2006)
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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