Lissocarpa

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Lissocarpa
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: 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. - Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil
  2. - S Venezuela, Guyana
  3. - N Peru
  4. - N Peru
  5. - Zamora-Chinchipe
  6. - Colombia, S Venezuela, N Peru
  7. - Puno, Bolivia
  8. - N Peru

References[]

  1. ^ Bentham, George. 1876. Genera Plantarum 2(2): 667, 671 in Latin
  2. ^ Tropicos, Lissocarpa Benth.
  3. ^ a b 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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