Fabaceae
Apuleia

Apuleia leiocarpa (Vogel) J.F.Macbr.

First published in Contr. Gray Herb. 59: 23 (1919)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Tropical America to NE. Argentina. It is a tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is used as a medicine and for food.

Distribution

Native to:

Argentina Northeast, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • (2021). https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.501.2.2. epublication.
  • Brako, L. & Zarucchi, J.L. (1993). Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i-xl, 1-1286. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Forzza, R.C., Zappi, D. & Souza, V.C. (2016-continuously updated). Flora do Brasil 2020 em construção http://reflora.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/listaBrasil/ConsultaPublicaUC/ResultadoDaConsultaNovaConsulta.do.
  • Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 529. MIM, Deurne.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Jørgensen, P.M. & León-Yánes, S. (eds.) (1999). Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador: 1-1181. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • Souza, V.C. & al. (2016). Flora dos Estados de Goiás e Tocantins 48: 1-147. Universidade federal de Goiás.
  • Zuloaga, F.O., Morrone, O. , Belgrano, M.J., Marticorena, C. & Marchesi, E. (eds.) (2008). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 1-3348. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • da Silva e Silva, W.L., Cajueiro Gurgel, E.S., Moreira dos Santos, J.U. & Falcão da Silva, M. (2013). Inventário e distribuição geográfica de Leguminosae no arquipélago de Marajó, PA, Brazil. Hoehnea 40: 627-647.
  • de Sousa, F.S.T., Lewis, G.P. & Hawkins, J.A. (2010). A revision of the South American genus Apuleia (Leguminosae, Cassieae). Kew Bulletin 65: 225-232. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Kew Bulletin

  • Arnott, G. A. W. (1838). Observations on some new or obscure species of plants. Zenkeria. Mag. Zool. Bot. 2: 548.
  • Baillon, M. H. (1877). Apuleia ferrea Mart. Dictionnaire de Botanique 1: 440. Hachette, Paris.
  • Bentham, G. (1870). Leguminosae 2, Swartzieae et Caesalpinieae. Apuleia Mart. In: C. F. P. von Martius, Flora Brasiliensis 15(2): 177.
  • Bernardi, L. (1984). Contribución a la dendrología Paraguaya. Apuleia. Boissiera 35: 207 – 209.
  • Cruden, R. W. (1976). Intraspecific variation in pollen-ovule ratios and nectar secretion — preliminary evidence of ecotypic adaptation. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 63: 277 – 289.
  • Didrichsen, D. F. (1853). Zenkeria lundii F. Didr. Vidensk. Meddel. Dansk Naturhist. Foren. Kjobenhavn 1853: 88 – 89.
  • Doust, J. L. & Harper, J. L. (1980). The Resource Costs of Gender and Maternal Support in an Andromonoecious Umbellifer, Smyrnium olusatrum L. New Phytol. 85: 251 – 264.
  • Fernandes, A. (1994). Novitates Florae Nordestinae Brasiliensis. Apuleia grazielana. Bradea 6: 284 – 288.
  • Gaertner, J. (1791). De fructibus et seminibus plantarum 2: 439, t.171. Sumbtibus Auctoris, Typis Academiae Carolinae, Stutgardiae.
  • Gibbs, P. E., Lewis, G. P. & Lughadha, E. N. (1999). Fruit-set induced changes in the sex of flowers in Caesalpinia calycina (Leguminosae). Pl. Biol. 1: 665 – 669.
  • Gleason, H. A. (1935). Some necessary nomenclatural changes. Apoleya Gleason, nom. nov. Phytologia 1: 143.
  • Henderson, A. (2006). Traditional morphometrics in plant systematics and its role in palm systematics. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 151: 103 – 111.
  • Iwata, H. & Ukai, Y. (2002). SHAPE: a computer program package for quantitative evaluation of biological shapes based on elliptic Fourier descriptors. J. Heredity 93: 384 – 385.
  • Iwata, H., Nesumi, H., Ninomiya, S., Takano, Y. & Ukai, Y. (2002). The evaluation of genotype-environment interactions of citrus leaf morphology using image analysis and elliptic Fourier descriptors. Breeding Sci. 52: 243 – 251.
  • Kovach, W. L. (2003). MVSP- A MultiVariate Statistical Package for Windows, version 3.1. Kovach Computing Services, Pentraeth, Wales, UK.
  • Kuhl, F. P. & Giardina, C. R. (1982). Elliptic Fourier features of a closed contour. Comp. Graphics Image Processing 18: 236 – 258.
  • Lewis, G. P. & Gibbs, P. (1999). Reproductive biology in Caesalpinia calycina and C. pluviosa (Leguminosae) in the caatinga of north-eastern Brazil. Pl. Syst. Evol. 217: 43 – 53.
  • Lewis, G. P. (2005). Tribe Cassieae. In: G. Lewis, B. Schrire, B. Mackinder & M. Lock (eds), Legumes of the World, pp. 111 – 125. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Lloyd, D. G. (1980). Sexual strategies in plants. I. An hypothesis of serial adjustment of maternal investment during one reproductive session. New Phytol. 86: 69 – 79.
  • Macbride, J. F. (1919). 1. Notes on certain Leguminosae. Apuleia leiocarpa (Vogel) comb. nov. Contr. Gray Herb. n.s. 59: 23.
  • Martius, C. von (1837). 178 Apuleia praecox Mart. Herbarium Florae Brasiliensis. Flora 20, Beibl.: 123.
  • Pittier, H. (1943). Notas dendrologicas de Venezuela, Dalbergia cucullata Pittier. Bol. Soc. Venez. Ci. Nat. 8: 261.
  • Quiñones, L. M. (2005). Leguminosae subfamilia Caesalpinioideae. In: E. Forero & C. Romero (eds), Estudios en Leguminosas Colombianas. Acad. Col. Ci. Exact., Fís. Nat. 25: 301 – 328.
  • Rizzini, C. T. (1971). Apuleia Mart. Árvores e madeiras úteis do Brasil — Manual de dendrologia Brasileira, pp. 109 – 112. São Paulo, Edgard & Blücher Ltda.
  • Rusby, H. H. (1910). New species from Bolivia, collected by R. S. Williams – 1. Platymiscium ellipticum sp. nov. Bull. New York Bot. Gard. 6: 514.
  • Solomon, B. P. (1985). Environmentally influenced changes in sex expression in an andromonoecious plant. Ecology 66: 1321 – 1332.
  • Vogel, Th. (1837). De Caesalpinieis Brasiliae. Leptolobium ? leiocarpum. Linnaea 11: 393.
  • Yoshioka, Y., Iwata, H., Ohsawa, R. & Ninomiya, S. (2004). Analysis of petal shape variation of Primula sieboldii by Elliptic Fourier and Principal Component Analysis. Ann. Bot. 94: 657 – 664.PubMed
  • Zarucchi, J. L. (1998). Apuleia Mart. In : P. E. Berry, B. K. Holst & K. Yatskievych (eds), Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana, volume 4 Caesalpiniaceae-Ericaceae, Apuleia, pp. 4 – 5. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St Louis.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Publications used to compile the distribution and map:

  • Brako, L. & Zarucchi, J.L. (1993). Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i-xl, 1-1286. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Forzza, R.C., Zappi, D. & Souza, V.C. (2016-continuously updated). Flora do Brasil 2020 em construção http://reflora.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/listaBrasil/ConsultaPublicaUC/ResultadoDaConsultaNovaConsulta.do.
  • Jørgensen, P.M. & León-Yánes, S. (eds.) (1999). Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador: 1-1181. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • Zuloaga, F.O., Morrone, O. , Belgrano, M.J., Marticorena, C. & Marchesi, E. (eds.) (2008). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 1-3348. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Castañeda, R.R. (1991). Frutas silvestres de Colombia. Instituto Colombiano de Cultura Hispánica.
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • FPI (2021). Food Plants International. https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World?homeurl=https://foodplantsinternational.com/plants/
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • GRIN (2021). Germplasm Resources Information Network from the United States Department of Agriculture. https://www.ars-grin.gov/
  • IUCN (2021). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2021-2. https://www.iucnredlist.org.
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
  • RBG, Kew (2021). Kew Economic Botany Collection. https://ecbot.science.kew.org/
  • RBG, Kew (ed.) (1999). Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (SEPASAL) database. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London.

International Legume Database and Information Service

  • Lewis, G. P. (1987). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 369 pp Legumes of Bahia

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Oct 20, 2003 Hatschbach, G.; Silva, J.M.; Deodato, F. [65565] Brazil K000835054 Yes
Nov 12, 2002 Klitgaard, B.B.; Garcia, F.C.P. [66] Brazil K:SPC-62594.000 No
Jan 1, 1994 Klitgaard, B.B.; Garcia, F.C.P. [66] Brazil K000056743 Yes
Apr 5, 1990 Leoni, L.S. [294] Brazil K000835052 Yes
Oct 1, 1974 Williams, L. [13444] Venezuela K000555323 Type Yes
Mori, S.; Silva, L.A.M.; Santos, T.S.; Kallunki, J.A.; Pennington, T.D. [9523] Brazil K000056744 No
Lima, H.C.; Diniz, A.P. [6259] Brazil K000835049 Yes
Prance, G.T.; Silva, N.T. [58618] Brazil K000835038 Yes
Hatschbach, G.; Guimarães, O. [19830] Brazil K000835035 Yes
Prance, G.T.; Silva, N.T. [59319] Brazil K000835031 Yes
Falcão, M.J. [89] Brazil K001891183 No
Ratter, J.A.; Bridgewater, S.; Fonseca Filho, J. [R7801v] Brazil K000835057 Yes
Krukoff, B.A. [5542] Brazil K000835033 Yes
Hatschbach, G.; Hatschbach, M.; Motta, J.T. [63245] Brazil K000835070 Yes
Hatschbach, G.; Pott, A.; Pott, V.; Silva, J.M. [62581] Brazil K000835064 Yes
Hatschbach, G.; Guimarães, O. [19830] Brazil K000835051 Yes
Krukoff, B.A. [5542] Brazil K000835037 Yes
Williams, R.S. [409] Bolivia K000264584 Type Yes
Hatschbach, G.; Guimarães, O. [19830] Brazil K000835050 Yes
Heringer, E.P.; Figueiras, T.S.; Mendonça, R.C.; Pereira, B.A.S.; Salles, A.E.H.; Silva, F.C. [5714] Brazil K000835056 Yes
Andrade, K.; Figueiredo, L.; Laurêncio, A. [47] Brazil K000835059 Yes
Heringer, E.P.; Fiigueiras, T.S.; Mendonça, R.C.; Pereira, B.A.S.; Salles, A.E.H.; Silva, F.C. [4953] Brazil K000835060 Yes
Prance, G.T.; Silva, N.T. [59339] Brazil K000835045 Yes
Mexia, Y. [5186] Brazil K000835039 Yes
Heringer, E.P.; Figueira, T.S.; Mendonça, R.C.; Pereira, B.A.; Salles, A.E.H.; Silva, F.C. [5426] Brazil K000835071 Yes
Ganev, W. [2982] Brazil K000835061 Yes
Queiroz, L.P.; Nascimento, N.S. [3650] Brazil K000835063 Yes
Krukoff, B.A. [2074] Brazil K000835068 Yes
Sep 15, 1922 Ducke, A. [s.n.] Brazil Apuleia molaris K000835048 Yes
Silva, N.T. [316] Brazil Apuleia molaris K000835067 Yes
Heringer, E.P. [18702] Brazil Apuleia molaris K000835073 Yes
Spruce, R. [4881] Peru Apuleia molaris K000264585 Unknown Type Material Yes
Ferreira, C.A.C.; Nee, M.; Boise, J.; Lopes, E.A.; Oliveira, J.G.; Lima, R.P.; Coelho, J.A. [8916] Brazil Apuleia molaris K000835053 Yes
Ratter, J.A.; Rocha, M.P.; Castro, R.A. [4397] Brazil Apuleia molaris K000835058 Yes
Fróes, R.L. [23542] Brazil Apuleia molaris K000835046 Yes
Archer, W.A. [8083] Brazil Apuleia molaris K000835041 Yes
Argent, G.C.G. [6743] Brazil Apuleia molaris K000835036 Yes
Archer, W.A. [8000] Brazil Apuleia molaris K000835043 Yes
Pennington, R.T.; Rowe, E.C. [172] Bolivia Apuleia molaris K:SPC-54763.000 No
Archer, W.A. [7984] Brazil Apuleia molaris K000835040 Yes
Silva, N.T. [316] Brazil Apuleia molaris K000835066 Yes
Argent, G.C.G. [6657] Brazil Apuleia molaris K000835069 Yes
Jan 1, 1987 Sellow, F. [s.n.] Brazil Apuleia praecox K000759733 Unknown Type Material Yes
Glaziou [9409] Brazil Apuleia praecox K000835042 Yes
Porto, P.C. [10961] Brazil Apuleia praecox K000835034 Yes
Porto, P.C. [s.n.] Brazil Apuleia praecox K000835032 Yes
Krukoff [s.n.] Apuleia praecox K000835080 Yes
Constantino, D. [s.n.] Brazil Apuleia praecox K000835044 Yes
Martii [178] Brazil Apuleia praecox K000264586 Unknown Type Material Yes
Martii [178] Brazil Apuleia praecox K000264587 Unknown Type Material Yes
Nov 1, 1993 Matos, A.F. [s.n.] Brazil Apuleia grazielana K000056745 Yes

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