Couratari

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Ordo: Ericales

Familia: Lecythidaceae
Subfamilia: Lecythidoideae
Genus: Couratari
Species: C. guianensis
Name

Couratari Aubl.
References

USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Couratari in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 09-Oct-10.

Couratari is a genus of trees in the family Lecythidaceae, first described as a genus in 1775.[2][3] They are native to tropical South America and Central America.[1]
Couratari sp. - MHNT

They are large trees, often rising above the rainforest canopy. The leaves are evergreen, alternate, simple, elliptical, up to 15 cm long, with a serrate to serrulate margin. Vernation lines parallel to the midvein are often visible - a very unusual characteristic. The fruit is 6–15 cm long, and roughly conical. A central plug drops out at maturity, releasing the winged seeds to be dispersed by wind. The fruit of Cariniana may be distinguished from those of Couratari, as the former have longitudinal ridges, whereas the latter bears a single calyx-derived ring near the fruit apex.[4][5]

Species[1]

Couratari asterophora - Bahia
Couratari asterotricha - Espírito Santo
Couratari atrovinosa - Amazonas
Couratari calycina - Guyana, French Guiana
Couratari gloriosa - Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname
Couratari guianensis - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Amazonas, Acre, Rondônia, Amapá, Pará
Couratari longipedicellata - Amazonas
Couratari macrosperma - Southern Peru, Pando, Amazonas, Acre, Rondônia, Pará, Espírito Santo, Bahia, Mato Grosso
Couratari multiflora - Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname, Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Pará, Maranhão, Bolívar, Mérida, Delta Amacuro
Couratari oblongifolia Ducke & R.Knuth - Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname, Pará, Goiás, Maranhão, Roraima
Couratari oligantha - Guyana, Vaupés, Peru, Amazonas, Amazonas, Amapá
Couratari prancei - Acre
Couratari pyramidata - Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro
Couratari riparia - Guyana
Couratari sandwithii - Bolívar, Suriname
Couratari scottmorii - Costa Rica, Panama
Couratari stellata - Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname, Amazonas, Amazonas, Pará, Vaupés,
Couratari tauari - Amazonas, Pará
Couratari tenuicarpa - Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia, Bolívar, Loreto, Suriname

References

Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Aublet, Jean Baptiste Christophe Fusée. 1775. Histoire des Plantes de la Guiane Françoise 2: 723–724, t. 290.
Tropicos, Couratari Aubl.
Mori, S.A. & G. T. Prance. 1990. Lecythidaceae–Part II. The zygomorphic–flowered New World genera (Couroupita, Corythophora, Bertholletia, Couratari, Eschweilera, & Lecythis). Flora Neotropica, Monograph 21(2): 1–376.
Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2009. Cucurbitaceae a Polemoniaceae. 4(1): i–xvi, 1–855. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México