Lissocarpa

Lissocarpa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Ebenaceae
Genus: Lissocarpa
Benth.

Lissocarpa is a genus of flowering plants, described as a genus in 1876. [1][2] It is classified as belonging to the family Ebenaceae, the ebony and diospyros family. It includes only a few species of small evergreen trees and shrubs species native to tropical South America.[3][4]

Lissocarpa species share various characters with other members of Ebenaceae, e.g., the black color of roots and bark, extrafloral nectaries on abaxial leaf surfaces, a persistent calyx, unisexual flowers, biovulate carpels with pendulous ovules, and a similar wood anatomy producing a hard, dark heartwood timber similar to ebony. They are slow-growing trees found on a wide variety of soils and sites. They grow in a large range of conditions. Best growth is in the bottom lands of River Valleys.[5]

species[3]
  1. Lissocarpa benthamii - Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil
  2. Lissocarpa guianensis - S Venezuela, Guyana
  3. Lissocarpa jensonii - N Peru
  4. Lissocarpa kating - N Peru
  5. Lissocarpa ronliesneri - Zamora-Chinchipe
  6. Lissocarpa stenocarpa - Colombia, S Venezuela, N Peru
  7. Lissocarpa tetramera - Puno, Bolivia
  8. Lissocarpa uyat - N Peru

References

  1. ↑ Bentham, George. 1876. Genera Plantarum 2(2): 667, 671 in Latin
  2. ↑ Tropicos, Lissocarpa Benth.
  3. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. ↑ Lissocarpa in IPNI, The International Plant Names Index
  5. ↑ Lissocarpa in EOL, Encyclopedia of Life
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