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Neotropical Lecythidaceae Taxonomic Names Catalog

The New York Botanical Garden is in the process of making data about the species of Neotropical Lecythidaceae available over the Internet. Our goal is to provide information about the taxonomic history, synonyms, morphology, diagnostic features, common names, distribution, phenology, pollination, dispersal, uses, and taxonomic problems available to researchers and interested public throughout the world. All taxonomic names of Neotropical Lecythidaceae are included in the catalog but many entries are still incomplete, i.e., they may not yet have descriptions or images associated with the names. For examples of complete entries see Bertholletia excelsa or Couroupita guianensis.

To use this catalog, search for a name and then click on the name to access information about that taxon. If images are available, they are appended at the end of the species page. To see a distribution map of a species return to the specimen catalog and follow the directions available in the introduction.

For additions and corrections please contact Scott Mori.

Search Tips

Searches in the Virtual Herbarium are by default word-based. The fastest searches are made by using whole words as the criteria. Wildcard characters can be used to find partial words, but search times will be significantly longer.

Use an asterisk (*) as a substitute for any number of characters in a word. (Example: "South*" in the Province/State field will return specimen records from "South Australia," "South Carolina," etc.)

Use an exclamation mark before a word to specifically exclude that word from the search. (Example: "Euphorbia" in the Genus field and "!robusta" in the Species field will return all records of Euphorbia except Euphorbia robusta.)

Use quotation marks to search for exact phrases. Words not enclosed by quotation marks will be used to return records with all of the words, but not necessarily in the order typed.

The Scientific Name field searches the genus, species, infraspecies, and author abbreviations of a name.
Example 1: the search term "guianensis" finds specimens of Couroupita guianensis, Couratari guianensis, etc.
Example 2: the term "S. A. Mori" finds specimen records of numerous taxa described by Scott A. Mori.

Author abbreviations can be found using Harvard University Herbaria's Index of Botanists.


	Genus Index

	The following is a list of all accepted genera of the Neotropical Lecythidaceae. Select a name for a list of all names published in a genus, including accepted names and synonyms. Allantoma Asteranthos Bertholletia Cariniana Corythophora Couratari Couroupita Eschweilera Grias Gustavia Lecythis