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Dipteryx

Dipteryx is a genus containing a number of species of large trees and possibly shrubs. It belongs to the "papilionoid" subfamily – Faboideae – of the family Fabaceae. This genus is native to South and Central America and the Caribbean. Formerly, the related genus Taralea was included in Dipteryx.

Dipteryx
Baru tree (Dipteryx alata)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Dipterygeae
Genus: Dipteryx
Schreb.
Species

12; see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Baryosma Gaertn. (1790), nom. rej.
  • Bolducia Neck. (1790), opus utique oppr.
  • Coumarouna Aubl. (1775), nom. rej.
  • Cumaruna J.F.Gmel. (1792), orth. var.
  • Heinzia Scop. (1777)
  • Oleiocarpon Dwyer (1965)

Description edit

The largest members of Dipteryx are canopy-emergent trees of tropical rainforests. The tonka bean (D. odorata) is grown for its fragrant seeds. Baru (D. alata) is the only species which found in drier, seasonal areas, growing in the cerrado of Brazil; its fruit and seeds are used as food and fodder. Several species are used for timber, of which almendro (D. oleifera) wood is considered desirable, especially locally.[2][3]

Dipteryx can be distinguished from other members of the Dipterygeae by its compound leaves with asymmetric leaflets caused due to an eccentric primary vein, a drupaceous fruit, seeds with a leathery skin, a hilum in a lateral or subapical position and a rugose embryo with a conspicuous plumule.[4]

Taxonomy edit

The number of recognised species of Dipteryx has changed over the years.

The genus was previously known as Coumarouna. In 1934 Walter Adolpho Ducke split this genus into two, on the basis of the alternate leaflets, among other characters, of Dipteryx. He used two older, conserved names published previously: Taralea and Dipteryx. Although Taralea was accepted, some taxonomists did not recognise Dipteryx as the correct name for the genus until at least the mid-1940s.[5]

In the most recent monograph on the genus, A Checklist of the Dipterygeae species by the Brazilian researcher Haroldo Cavalcante de Lima in 1989, he synonymised a number of species, accepting nine species in the genus.[6] His taxonomy was accepted by ILDIS (2005)[6] but not noticed or followed by US databases, i.e. in GRIN (2005),[7] the entry on Dipteryx in the Contribución al conocimiento de las leguminosas Colombianas by C. Barbosa (1994),[8] the IUCN (1998)[9] based on World List of Threatened Trees by Oldfield et al. (1998),[10] or the Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru (1993) which was built using the Tropicos database by the Missouri Botanical Garden.[11] In 1999 the entry on Dipteryx in the Flora of the Venezuelan Guyana by de Lima was published.[12]

The northernmost taxon Dipteryx panamensis, notable as being the only species listed on CITES since 2003 and therefore subject to export controls,[3][8] was synonymised with the neglected but older name D. oleifera by de Lima in 1989, but this move was only followed by ILDIS[6] and one or two of articles on the species over the years, all other floras, databases and publications using the name D. panamensis.[3] In 2011, however, the Report of the Nomenclature Committee for Vascular Plants: 62 recommended D. oleifera by treated as validly published, and de Lima's synonymy for this taxon has been accepted by many.[11][13][14]

By 2010, in the Catálogo de Plantas e Fungos do Brasil, de Lima had changed his mind and re-recognised two of Brazilian taxa he had earlier considered synonyms in 1989, although not all.[15][16]

Species edit

12 species are accepted:[1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Dipteryx Schreb. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 18 August.
  2. ^ Petruzzello, Melissa. "Almendro - Tree". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  3. ^ a b c Stella Fließwasser (8 October 2014). Dipteryx oleifera Factsheet (PDF) (Report). Bundesambt für Naturschutz. pp. 1–6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 October 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  4. ^ Gonçalves Leite V, Freitas Mansano V, Pádua Teixeira S (2014). "Floral ontogeny in Dipterygeae (Fabaceae) reveals new insights into one of the earliest branching tribes in papilionoid legumes". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 174 (4): 529–550. doi:10.1111/boj.12158.
  5. ^ Macbride, James Francis (1943). "Flora of Peru". Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical Series. 13 (3/1): 251. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
  6. ^ a b c "ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Dipteryx". International Legume Database & Information Service. Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  7. ^ USDA; ARS; National Genetic Resources Program. "GRIN species records of Dipteryx". Germplasm Resources Information Network—(GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Archived from the original on 14 October 2008. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  8. ^ a b USDA; ARS; National Genetic Resources Program (13 April 2004). "GRIN species records of Dipteryx panamensis". Germplasm Resources Information Network—(GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Archived from the original on 19 November 2004. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  9. ^ World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1998). "Dipteryx charapilla". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1998. IUCN: e.T36892A10019706. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T36892A10019706.en.
  10. ^ "Red Lists - Global Trees". Global Trees Campaign. Fauna & Flora International and Botanic Gardens Conservation International. 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  11. ^ a b "Dipteryx Schreb". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Missouri Botanical Garden. 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  12. ^ de Lima, Haroldo Cavalcante; Lima, I.B. (19 February 2015). "Dipteryx Schreb". Dipteryx in Lista de Espécies da Flora do Brasil (in Portuguese). Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  13. ^ USDA; ARS; National Genetic Resources Program (2011). "GRIN species records of Dipteryx oleifera Benth". Germplasm Resources Information Network—(GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  14. ^ USDA; ARS; National Genetic Resources Program. "GRIN species records of Dipteryx". Germplasm Resources Information Network—(GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  15. ^ "Name - Dipteryx charapilla (J.F. Macbr.) Ducke". Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
  16. ^ Forzza, Rafaela Campostrini; Leitman, Paula Moraes; et al. (11 August 2010). Catálogo de Plantas e Fungos do Brasil, volume 2 (PDF) (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro: Andrea Jakobsson Estúdio, Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro. p. 1033. ISBN 978-85-88742-43-7.

Further reading edit

  • Hanson, Thor (2015). The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 9780465048724.
  •   Media related to Dipteryx at Wikimedia Commons
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