Platonia insignis Mart.

Molino, Jean-François, Sabatier, Daniel, Grenand, Pierre, Engel, Julien, Frame, Dawn, Delprete, Piero G., Fleury, Marie, Odonne, Guillaume, Davy, Damien, Lucas, Eve J. & Martin, Claire A., 2022, An annotated checklist of the tree species of French Guiana, including vernacular nomenclature, Adansonia (3) 44 (26), pp. 345-903 : 435

[379] Platonia insignis Mart.

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Nova genera et species plantarum [Martius] 3 (3): 169 [“1829” publ. Sep. 1832] (Martius 1832)., nom. cons.

Moronobea esculenta Arruda, Trav. Brazil [H. Koster] 490 (Arruda 1816), nom. rej. — Symphonia esculenta Arruda ex Choisy, Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 1: 563 [mid Jan. 1824] (Choisy 1824), nom. nud. pro syn. — Symphonia esculenta (Arruda) Steud., Nomencl. Bot. [Steudel], ed. 2, 2: 654 (Steudel 1841). — Platonia esculenta (Arruda) Oken, Allg. Naturgesch. 3 (2): 1431 (Oken 1841). — Aristoclesia esculenta (Arruda) Stuntz, Bull.Bur.Pl. Industr. U.S.D. A. 248: 58 (Stuntz 1912). — Platonia esculenta (Arruda) Rickett & Stafleu , Taxon 8: 313 (Rickett & Stafleu 1959), isonym.

NOTES. — Semi-domesticated by pre-Columbian Amerindians ( Clement 1999; Levis et al. 2017). Choisy is the author of Guttiferae in Candolle’s Prodromus : his name appears at the end of the treatment (p. 564) indicating his authorship.

VERNACULAR NAMES. — Pa: wakukwa-tiranõ-kamwi • Ka: pakuli • Wp: wɨla nãnã kweli • Wn: wiipë • Nt: makasu, paykuli • Cr: parkouri • Fr: parcouri • Br: bacuri.

HERBARIUM DATA (FG). — 39 collections at CAY. Sel. exs.: D. Sabatier & M.-F. Prévost 2575.

INVENTORY DATA (FG). — 104 trees in 56 plots; Fmax <1 %; dbhinv = 120 cm.

Figures

FIG. 18. — Clusiaceae: A, Garcinia macrophylla Mart. (D. Sabatier & J.-F. Molino 5703); B, Platonia insignis Mart. (D. Sabatier & M.-F. Prévost 2575); C, Tovomita maxima Molino & J.Engel; D, Symphonia globulifera L.f. (D. Sabatier & M.-F. Prévost 4381); E, Tovomita schomburgkii Planch. & Triana (J.-F. Molino et al. 3372). A-D, © D. Sabatier/IRD; E, © J.-F. Molino/IRD.