Chrysobalanaceae
Moquilea

Moquilea brittoniana (Fritsch) Sothers & Prance

First published in Kew Bull. 71(4)-58: 33 (2016)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is W. South America to N. Brazil. It is a tree and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Bolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Prance, G.T. & Sothers, C.A. (2003). Chrysobalanaceae 1 & 2. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World 9, 10: 1-319, 1-268. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (2019). Lista de especies vedadas por la resolución 213 de 1977. 8256 especies. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=le_plantaspriorizadas_2019

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Alexiades, M.; Díaz, C. [799] Peru K004800972 Yes
Palacios, W.; Tipaz; Rubio; Gudiño; Aulestia [9448] Ecuador K004800973 Yes
Alexiades, M.; Arevalo, M.; Bardales, W. [461] Peru K004800969 Yes
Vásquez, R.; Jaramillo, N. [11477] Peru K004800967 Yes
Vásquez, R.; Jaramillo, N. [12859] Peru K004800964 Yes
Schultes, R.E.; Black, G.A. [8588] Colombia K004800985 Yes
Meneces, E.; Terceros, W. [478] Bolivia K004800979 Yes
Vásquez, R.; Phillips, O.; Rojas, R.; Peña, A. [22955] Peru K004800983 Yes
Pennington, T.D.; Daza, A. [17232] Peru K004800966 Yes
Alexiades, M.; Arevalo, M. [573] Peru K004800971 Yes
Smith, E.E. [8ES] Bolivia K004800982 Yes
Smith, D.N.; Garcia, E.; Gullison, R.E. [14228] Bolivia K004800975 Yes
Meneces, E.; Hartshorn, G. [2342] Bolivia K004800974 Yes
Seidel, R.; Vilches, D.; Yubanuré, J. [6559] Bolivia K004800962 Yes
Jardim, A. [2354] Bolivia K004800980 Yes
Smith, D.N.; Valentín; García, E. [14350] Bolivia K004800977 Yes
Fundación Biológica Puerto Rastrojo [494] Colombia K004800984 Yes
Smith, D.N.; Garcia, E.; Gullison, R.E. [14201] Bolivia K004800976 Yes
Gentry, A.; Revilla, J.; Daly, D. [18979] Peru K004800970 Yes
Grández, C.; Hudson, I. [4865] Peru K004800968 Yes
{Ing. Rafael Lao Majin} [61-R.L.M.] Peru K004800965 Yes
Meneces, E.; Zabala, R. [360] Bolivia K004800978 Yes
Vásquez, R.; Jaramillo, N. [11637] Peru K004800963 Yes
Carrión, A.; Sima, C.; Roca, V.; Ayala, V. [249] Bolivia K004800981 Yes
Jan 1, 2008 Sasaki, D.; Pedroga, J.A.; Corrêa, T.R.; Piva, J.H. [1261] Brazil Licania brittoniana K000447850 Yes
Rusby, H.H. [2442] Bolivia Licania pallida K000220787 Unknown Type Material Yes

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Neotropikey

    • Milliken, W., Klitgard, B. and Baracat, A. (2009 onwards), Neotropikey - Interactive key and information resources for flowering plants of the Neotropics.
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0