Hymenaea L.

Native to:

Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya, Leeward Is., Madagascar, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Réunion, Suriname, Tanzania, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.

Introduced into:

Benin, Borneo, China Southeast, Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Malaya, Myanmar, Philippines, Senegal, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Uganda, Zimbabwe

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.

Kew Bulletin

• BFG (2015). Growing knowledge: an overview of Seed Plant diversity in Brazil. Rodriguesia 66(4): 1085 -1113.
• Bruneau, A., Breteler, F.J, Klitgaard, B. B., Prenner, G., Fougere-Danezan, M. & Tucker, S. C. (2014). Floral evolution in the Detarieae (Leguminosae): Phylogenetic evidence for labile floral development in an early-diverging legume lineage. Int. J. Pl. Sci. 175(4): 392 - 417.
• Bruneau, A., Breteler, F.J, Mercure, M., Lewis, G. P. & Herendeen, P. S. (2008). Phylogenetic patterns and diversification in the caesalpinioid legumes. Botany 86: 697 - 718.
• Bruneau, A., Breteler, F.J., Wieringa, J.J., Gervais, G.Y.F. & Forest, F. (2000). Phylogenetic relationships in tribes Macrolobieae and Detarieae inferred from chloroplast trnL intron sequences. In: P. S. Herendeen & A. Bruneau (eds), Advances in legume systematics, part 9, pp. 121 - 149. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Cardoso, D. B. O. S., Queiroz, L. P. & Lima, H. C. (2008). Three new species of Luetzelburgia (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae) from the caatinga of Bahia, Brazil and an identification key to all species of the genus. Kew Bull. 63: 289 - 300.
• Carneiro-Torres, D. S., Cordeiro, I., Giulietti, A. M., Berry, P. E. & Riina, R. (2011). Three new species of Croton (Euphorbiaceae s.s.) from the Brazilian Caatinga. Brittonia 63: 122 - 132.
• Clemente, M. E. A. (2007). Cangayo e Cangaceiros: Historias e Imagens Fotograficas do Tempo de Lampiao. Revista Hist. Estud. Cult. 4(4): 1 - 15.
• Cordula, E., Queiroz, L. P. & Alves, M. (2008). Checklist da Flora de Mirandiba, Pernambuco: Leguminosae. Rodriguesia 59(3): 597 - 602.
• Fougere-Danezan, M., Herendeen, P. S., Maumont, S. & Bruneau, A. (2010). Morphological evolution in the variable resin-producing Detarieae (Fabaceae): do morpho­logical characters retain a phylogenetic signal? Ann. Bot. 105: 311 - 325.
• Fougere-Danezan, M., Maumont, S. & Bruneau, A. (2007). Relationships among resin producing Detarieae s.l. (Leguminosae) as inferred by molec­ular data. Syst. Bot. 32(4): 748 - 761.
• Goto, B. T., Silva, G. A., Maia, L. C. & Oehl, F. (2010). Dentiscutata colliculosa,anewspeciesinthe Glomeromycetes from Northeastern Brazil with colliculate spore ornamentation. Nova Hedwigia 90: 383 - 393.
• IUCN Standards and Petitions Subcommittee. (2016). GuidelinesforUsingtheIUCNRedListCategoriesandCriteria. Version 12. Prepared by the IUCN species survival commission. IUCN Council, Gland and Cambridge. Available from: http://www.iucnredlist.org/docu-ments/RedListGuidelines.pdf(Accessed 02 Aug. 2016).
• LPWG (The Legume Phylogeny Working Group) (2013). Legume phylogeny and classification in the 21st century: Progress, prospects and lessons for other species-rich clades. Taxon 62: 217 - 248
• LPWG, (2017). A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically compre­hensive phylogeny. Taxon 66: 44 - 77.
• Lee,Y.T.&Langenheim,J.H.(1975). Systematicsofthegenus Hymenaea L., Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae, Detarieae. University of California Publications Press, Berkeley.
• Linares-Palomino, R., Oliveira-Filho, A. T. & Pennington, R. T. (2011). Neotropical seasonally dry forests: diversity, endemism, and biogeography of woody plants. In: R.Dirzo,H.S.Young,H.A.Mooney & G. Ceballos (eds), Seasonally dry tropical forests: ecology and conservation, pp. 3 - 21. Island Press, Washington.
• Moro, M. F., Lughadha, E. N., Filer, D. L., Araujo, F. S. & Martins, F. R. (2014). A catalogue of the vascular plants of the Caatinga Phytogeographic Domain: a synthesis of floristic and phytosociological survey. Phytotaxa 160(1): 001 - 118.
• Olson, D. M., Dinerstein, E., Wikramanayake, E. D., Burgess,N.D.,Powell,G.V.N.,Underwood,E.C., D'Amico,J.A.,Itoua,I.,Strand,H.E.,Morrison,J.C., Loucks, C. J., Allnutt, T. F., Ricketts, T. H., Kura, Y., Lamoreux,J.F.,Wettengel,W.W.,Hedao,P.&Kassem, K. R. (2001). Terrestrial ecoregions ofthe world: a new map of life on Earth. BioScience 51: 933 - 938.
• Pinto, R. B., Mansano, V. F. & Tozzi, A. M. G. A. (2015). Reestablishment of Hymenaea travassii (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae), a species endem­ic to the Bolivian Chaco. Phytotaxa 219(1): 96 - 100.
• Polhill, R. M. (1994). Classification of the Leguminosae & complete synopsis oflegume genera. In: F. A. Bisby, Buckingham & J. B. Harborne (eds), Phytochemical dictionary of the Leguminosae. Vol. 1. Plants and their constituents ,pp.35- 57. Chapman & Hall, London.
• Queiroz, L. P. (2009). Leguminosas da caatinga. Associayao Plantas do Nordeste, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Raposo,M.A.(1997).Anewspeciesof Arremon (Passeriformes: Emberizidae) from Brazil. Ararajuba 5(1): 3-9.
• Ribeiro, R. D., Cardoso, D. B. O. S. & Lima, H. C. (2015). A new species of Hymenaea (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae) with a revised identification key to the genus in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Syst. Bot. 40(1): 151 - 156.
• Souza, I. M., Funch, L. S. & Queiroz, L. P. (2014). Morphological analyses suggest a new taxonomic circumscription for Hymenaea courbaril L. (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae). PhytoKeys 38: 101 - 118.
• Taddei, V. A. & Lim, B. K. (2010). A new species of Chiroderma (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) from Northeastern Brazil. Brazil. J. Biol. 70(2): 381 - 386.
• Vivallo, F. & Melo, G. A. R. (2009). Taxonomy and geographic distribution of the species of Centris of the hyptidis group (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Centridini), with description of a new species from central Brazil. Zootaxa 2075: 33 - 44.

Flora Zambesiaca

• Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 499 (1754).
• Lee & Langenheim in Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 69: 1–109 (1975).
• Sp. Pl.: 1192 (1753)