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Chrysobalanus icaco L.
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EOL Text
Prefiere sitios costeros con suelos arenosos.
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 2
Specimens with Barcodes: 6
Species With Barcodes: 1
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: N3 - Vulnerable
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.
Common
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Rights holder/Author | Kenfack, David, Kenfack, David, Vascular Plants of Korup National Park |
Source | http://korupplants.lifedesks.org/pages/448 |
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.
"Notes: Western Ghats, Cultivated, Native of Tropical America"
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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Rights holder/Author | NatureServe |
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Evergreen shrub or tree up to 30 m tall. Leaf-lamina suborbicular to lanceolate-elliptic, apex emarginate to acuminate, glabrous except for a few appressed hairs on both surfaces; petiole 0.2–0.4 cm long; stipules intrapetiolar, 0.3 cm long, boat-shaped, 2-fid, caducous. Inflorescence axillary, up to 3 cm long, but usually much less, a raceme of cymules, or a congested complex cyme, or flowers in subsessile fascicles. Receptacle-tube c. 0.15 cm long. Sepals c. 0.15 cm long. Petals c. 0.25 cm long. Stamens c. 0.3 cm long. Drupe variable in shape and size, ovoid, ellipsoid or obovoid, up to 5 cm long, usually smaller.
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Rights holder/Author | Kenfack, David, Kenfack, David, Vascular Plants of Korup National Park |
Source | http://korupplants.lifedesks.org/pages/448 |