Chrysobalanus icaco L.

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Depth range based on 4 specimens in 1 taxon.

Environmental ranges
  Depth range (m): 0.5 - 0.5
 
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Rights holder/AuthorOcean Biogeographic Information System
Sourcehttp://www.iobis.org/mapper/?taxon_id=783518

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Barcode data: Chrysobalanus icaco:

The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.


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Rights holder/AuthorSujeevan Ratnasingham, Paul D.N. Hebert, Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Chrysobalanus icaco:

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 2
Specimens with Barcodes: 6
Species With Barcodes: 1

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National NatureServe Conservation Status:
United States

Rounded National Status Rank: N3 - Vulnerable

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Rights holder/AuthorBlythe, K. (TNC-LASP), NatureServe
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NatureServe Conservation Status:

Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure

Reasons: Widely distributed, mainly in coastal areas, from Mexico through Central America on both coasts, Florida, throughout the West Indies and Bahamas, around the northern and eastern coast of South America from Colombia to southern Brazil, in the coastal regions of West Africa from Guinea to Angola, and naturalized in the Seychelles and Fiji.

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Conservation Status:

Common

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Rights holder/AuthorKenfack, David, Kenfack, David, Vascular Plants of Korup National Park
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Root, Stem-bark and Leaf: Astringent, used for diarrhoea and leucorrhoea. Root and Leaf: In French Guiana, the juice mixed with oil is used to contract the sphincters of the vulva by women wishing to simulate virginity, and the same preparation is used by men for treating flaccid scrotum. Fruit: Astringent, antidiarrhoeic; edible.

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Rights holder/AuthorSmithsonian Institution, Robert A. DeFilipps, Shirley L. Maina, Juliette Crepin, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Department of Botany
Sourcehttp://botany.si.edu/bdg/medicinal/index.html

Miscellaneous Details:

"Notes: Western Ghats, Cultivated, Native of Tropical America"

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Rights holder/Author"G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram", India Biodiversity Portal
Sourcehttp://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/264843

Economic Uses:

Uses: Fruit

Comments: The fruit is edible and in Colombia and Venezuela it is cooked, bottled in syrup and sold commercially.

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