Cheiloclinium cognatum
(Miers) A.C. Sm.;
Uarutama
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Description
A shrub or small tree. It grows 4-6 m high. It can lean over or be a creeper. The leaves are papery. They are 10-14 cm long. The flowers are in small groups in or near the axils of leaves. The flowers are very small. The fruit are like berries and have a juicy pulp. They are 3 cm long by 2.5 cm wide.
Edible Uses
The fruit is eaten fresh; both the fruit and aril are edible portions.
Traditional Uses
The fruit are eaten fresh.
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Distribution
It is a tropical plant. It grows in most forests throughout Brazil.
Where It Grows
Africa, Amazon, Bolivia, Brazil*, Central America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guianas, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Sierra Leone, South America, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, West Africa,
Cultivation
The plants are grown from seed.
Notes
The family was formerly Hippocrateaceae.
Synonyms
Also Known As
Bacupari-da-mata, Cimbra pote, Cocora, Chuchuhuaso, Gaspadilloa marron, Melocontoncito, Pisimo se'tapi'pi, Saputa, Siputa, Uarutama
References (15)
- Bendezu, Y. F., 2018, Arboles nativos de lad Region Ucayali. Instituto Nacional de Innovacion Agraria. p 87
- Cavalcante, P.B. 1991. Frutas comestíveis da Amazônia. Edições CEJUP.
- Flores, Y., 2018, Arboles nativos de la Region Ucayili. Estacion Experimental Agragia Pucallpa. Pucallpa Peru, 375 p. p 87
- Grandtner, M. M. & Chevrette, J., 2013, Dictionary of Trees, Volume 2: South America: Nomenclature, Taxonomy and Ecology. Academic Press p 124
- Kermath, B. M., et al, 2014, Food Plants in the Americas: A survey of the domesticated, cultivated and wild plants used for Human food in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. On line draft. p 214
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- Kew Plants of the World onLine
- Lombardi, J. A. and L. G. Temponi, 2001, "Hippocrateaceae", In: Flora del Paraguay, 36: 1-36 (L. Ramella & R. Spichiger , eds.)
- Lorenzi, H., Bacher, L., Lacerda, M. & Sartori, S., 2006, Brazilian Fruits & Cultivated Exotics. Sao Paulo, Instituto Plantarum de Estuados da Flora Ltda. p 114
- NYBG herbarium "edible"
- Paz, F. S., et al, 2021, Edible Fruit Plant Species in the Amazon Forest Rely Mostly on Bees and Beetles as Pollinators. Journal of Economic Entomology, XX(XX), 2021, 1–13
- Peres, M. K., 2011, Diasporos do Cerrado Atrativos para Fauna: Chave Interativa Caracterizacao Visual e Relacoes Ecologicas. Masters thesis. Universidade de Brasilia.
- Roa, J. A. G. & Boada, D. S. G., 2018, Fundación para el Fortalecimiento de la Fruticultura y Plantas Alimenticias no Convencionales en Colombia.
- Torre, de la, L., et al, 2008, Enciclopedia de las Plantas Útiles del Ecuador. Herbario QCA. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. p 380
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- www.colecionandofrutas.org
