Licania

Taxobox
name = "Licania"


image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Oitizeiro" ("Licania tomentosa")
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
subclassis = Rosidae
unranked_ordo = Eurosids I
ordo = Malpighiales
familia = Chrysobalanaceae
genus = "Licania"
genus_authority =
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = Numerous, see text

"Licania" is a plant genus in the family Chrysobalanaceae. Mainly due to deforestation, several species of these shrubs and smallish trees have declined, some markedly so, and "L. caldasiana" from Colombia appears to have gone extinct in recent years.

Several species are used as ornamental plants. "Licania" fruit are important food for many animals and can also be eaten by humans. Caterpillars of a possible new taxon of the "Astraptes fulgerator" cryptic species complex were found on "L. arborea" but do not seem to eat them regularly [Hébert "et al." (2004), Brower "et al." (2006)] .

elected species

* "Licania arborea"
* "Licania caldasiana"
* "Licania chiriquiensis"
* "Licania conferruminata"
* "Licania fasciculata"
* "Licania grandibracteata"
* "Licania hedbergii"
* "Licania kunthiana" Hook.f.
* "Licania longicuspidata"
* "Licania longipetala"
* "Licania megalophylla"
* "Licania michauxii" – Gopher Apple, Ground Oak
* "Licania morii"
* "Licania pyrifolia" Grisebach – Merecure Licania
* "Licania rigida" Mart.
* "Licania salicifolia"
* "Licania splendens"
* "Licania tomentosa" (Benth) Fritsch. – "oitizeiro" (Brazil)
* "Licania vasquezii"
* "Licania velutina"

Footnotes

References

* (2006): Problems with DNA barcodes for species delimitation: ‘ten species’ of "Astraptes fulgerator" reassessed (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). "Systematics and Biodiversity" 4(2): 127–132. doi|10.1017/S147720000500191X [http://www.bolinfonet.org/pdf/Brower_2006SYSTBIODIVERSITY%5B1%5D.pdf PDF fulltext]
* (2004): Ten species in one: DNA barcoding reveals cryptic species in the semitropical skipper butterfly "Astraptes fulgerator". "PNAS" 101(41): 14812-14817. doi|10.1073/pnas.0406166101 [http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/101/41/14812.pdf PDF fulltext] [http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/0406166101/DC1 Supporting Appendices]