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Caryocar brasiliense (pequi)

Wikipedia Abstract

Caryocar brasiliense, known as Pequi (Portuguese pronunciation: [piˈki], [peˈki]) or "souari nut", like its congeners, is an edible fruit popular in some areas of Brazil, especially in Brazil's central-west region.
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Infraspecies

Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Specific Gravity [2]  0.65
Structure [1]  Tree

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Phyllostomus discolor (pale spear-nosed bat)[8]

Consumers

Shelter for 
Cyanocorax cristatellus (Curl-crested Jay)[7]

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
3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
4Norrbom, A.L. 2004. Fruit fly (Tephritidae) host plant database. Version Nov, 2004.
5Anoura geoffroyi (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), JORGE ORTEGA AND IVAN ALARCON-D., MAMMALIAN SPECIES 818:1–7 (2008)
6Feeding Behavior of the Black-Tufted-ear Marmoset (Callithrix penicillata) (Primata, Callitrichidae) in a Tropical Cerrado Savanna, Andréa Andrade Vilela & Kleber Del-Claro, Sociobiology Vol. 58, No. 2, 2011
7Breeding patterns and habitat use in the endemic Curl-crested Jay of central Brazil, Marina F. Amaral and Regina H. F. Macedo, J. Field Ornithol. 74(4):331–340, 2003
8Phyllostomus 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