Fabaceae
Erythrina

Erythrina edulis Triana ex Micheli

First published in J. Bot. (Morot) 6: 145 (1892)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is W. South America to NW. Venezuela. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome. It is used as animal food and a medicine, has environmental uses and for food.

Distribution

Native to:

Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • 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.
  • Govaerts, R. (2001). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS E-F: 1-50919.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., Ortiz, R.D.C., Callejas Posada, R. & Merello, M. (eds.) (2011). Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 1-939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
  • Jørgensen, P.M. & León-Yánes, S. (eds.) (1999). Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador: 1-1181. 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

Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

  • Carvajal, L., Ariza, W., Caro, L., Valero, N. (2014). Especies forestales representativas del Sur Oriente de Boyacá. Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Colombia
  • GRIN National Genetic Resources Program http://www.ars-grin.gov in The State of the World’s Plants Report–2016. (2016). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew https://stateoftheworldsplants.org/2016/
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Castro, C. (Proveedor de metadatos), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). Versión 11.0. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014

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.
  • Jørgensen, P.M. & León-Yánes, S. (eds.) (1999). Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador: 1-1181. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.

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
  • 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/
  • García Castro, N. J. (2011). Plantas nativas empleadas en alimentación en Colombia. Instituo de Investigaciones Biológicas Alexander von Humboldt. http://repository.humboldt.org.co/handle/20.500.11761/31275
  • IUCN (2021). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2021-2. https://www.iucnredlist.org.
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt. (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
  • Willis, K.J. (ed.) (2017). State of the World’s Plants 2017. Report. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

International Legume Database and Information Service

  • Burkart, A. (1952). Acme Agency, Buenos Aires 569 pp Las Leguminosas Argentinas
  • Krukoff, B. A. & Barneby, R. C. (1974). Lloydia 37(3) :332-459 Conspectus... of the genus Erythrina

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Mar 2, 2000 Ecuador K001474211 Yes
Mar 28, 1987 Vásquez, R.; Monteagudo, A. [33195], Peru K001088527 Yes
Dec 13, 1985 Ecuador K001474162 Yes
Jan 1, 1972 García-Barriga, H.; Krukoff, B.A. [20062] Colombia K001474148 Yes
Jan 1, 1938 Triana, J. [s.n.] Colombia K000502763 Type Yes
Holguer, L.S. [1772] Ecuador K001574402 Yes
Spruce, R. [5005] Ecuador K000200899 Type Yes
Holguer, L.S. [1904] Ecuador K001574406 Yes
Vásquez, R.; Monteagudo, A. [33195] Peru K001088527 Yes
Colombia K001474144 Yes
Colombia K001474145 Yes
Colombia K001474146 Yes
Colombia K001474147 Yes
Colombia K001474148 Yes
Colombia K001474149 Yes
Colombia K001474150 Yes
Colombia K001474151 Yes
Colombia K001474152 Yes
Ecuador K001474153 Yes
Ecuador K001474154 Yes
Ecuador K001474155 Yes
Ecuador K001474156 Yes
Ecuador K001474157 Yes
Ecuador K001474158 Yes
Ecuador K001474159 Yes
Ecuador K001474160 Yes
Ecuador K001474161 Yes
Ecuador K001474163 Yes
Ecuador K001474164 Yes
Ecuador K001474165 Yes
Peru K001474166 Yes
Peru K001474167 Yes
Peru K001474168 Yes
Peru K001474169 Yes
Peru K001474170 Yes
Peru K001474171 Yes
Peru K001474172 Yes
Peru K001474173 Yes
Peru K001474174 Yes
Peru K001474175 Yes
Peru K001474176 Yes
Peru K001474177 Yes
Peru K001474178 Yes
Peru K001474179 Yes
Peru K001474180 Yes
Peru K001474181 Yes
Peru K001474182 Yes
Ecuador K001474184 Yes
Ecuador K001474185 Yes
Ecuador K001474186 Yes
Ecuador K001474187 Yes
Ecuador K001474188 Yes
Ecuador K001474189 Yes
Ecuador K001474190 Yes
Ecuador K001474191 Yes
Ecuador K001474192 Yes
Ecuador K001474193 Yes
Ecuador K001474194 Yes
Ecuador K001474195 Yes
Ecuador K001474196 Yes
Ecuador K001474197 Yes
Ecuador K001474198 Yes
Ecuador K001474199 Yes
Ecuador K001474200 Yes
Ecuador K001474201 Yes
Ecuador K001474202 Yes
Ecuador K001474203 Yes
Ecuador K001474204 Yes
Ecuador K001474205 Yes
Ecuador K001474206 Yes
Ecuador K001474207 Yes
Ecuador K001474208 Yes
Ecuador K001474209 Yes
Ecuador K001474210 Yes
Ecuador K001474212 Yes
Ecuador K001474214 Yes
Ecuador K001474215 Yes
Ecuador K001474216 Yes
Peru K001474183 No
Ecuador K001474213 No
Jan 1, 1998 Lewis, G.P.; Lozano, P.; Aguirre, N.; Aldaz, I. [2673] Ecuador Erythrina megistophylla K:SPC-70000.023 No
Jan 1, 1998 Lewis, G.P.; Merino, B.; Aguirre, N. [3441] Ecuador Erythrina megistophylla K:SPC-71917.000 No

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Colombian resources for Plants made Accessible

    • ColPlantA 2021. Published on the Internet at http://colplanta.org
    • https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • International Legume Database and Information Service

    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Universidad Nacional de Colombia

    • ColPlantA database
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

    • ColPlantA database
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0