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Lecythidaceae
plant family
Also known as: brazil nut family
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- In Ericales: Lecythidaceae
Lecythidaceae, the Brazil nut family, is a pantropical group of evergreen trees of about 25 genera and 350 species. There are several groups in the family with distinctive geographic distributions. The Brazil nut group includes about 10 genera and 215 species, all Neotropical; in…
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- In Brazil nut
…large South American tree (family Lecythidaceae) found in the Amazonian forests of Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador. The Brazil nut is particularly well known in the Brazilian state of Pará, where it is called castanha-do-pará (Pará nut) and is grown as one of the major commercially traded nuts in the…
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