Hymenaea

Hymenaea
Hymenaea stigonocarpa.
Classificação científica
Reino: Plantae (sem classif.) Angiosperms Divisão: Magnoliophyta Classe: Magnoliopsida (sem classif.) Eudicots (sem classif.) Rosids Ordem: Fabales Família: Fabaceae Subfamília: Detarioideae Género: Hymenaea L.
Espécie-tipo
Hymenaea courbaril L.
Espécies
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Sinónimos
Trachylobium Hayne

Fruto e sementes de Hymenaea verrucosa (colecção do MHNT).

Madeira de Hymenaea courbaril.

Hymenaea L. é um género de plantas com flor pertencente à família Fabaceae, que agrupa 14 espécies extantes de árvores e arbustos com distribuição natural nas regiões de clima tropical das Américas, mas com uma espécie nativa da África Oriental (Hymenaea verrucosa).

Espécies

O género Hymenaea inclui as seguintes espécies:

• †Hymenaea allendis
• Hymenaea aurea
• Hymenaea courbaril
• Hymenaea eriogyne
• Hymenaea intermedia
• Hymenaea maranhensis
• Hymenaea martiana
• †Hymenaea mexicana
• Hymenaea oblongifolia
• Hymenaea parvifolia
• †Hymenaea protera
• Hymenaea reticulata
• Hymenaea rubriflora
• Hymenaea stigonocarpa
• Hymenaea torrei
• Hymenaea velutina
• Hymenaea verrucosa

† Extinta

Ver também

• Animé ou jatobá, uma óleo-resina extraída de espécies do género Hymenaea.

Bibliografia

• Aidar M.P.M., Martinez C. A., Costa A. C., Costa P. M. F., Dietrich S. M. C., Buckeridge M. S. (2002) Effect of atmospheric CO₂ enrichment on the establishment of seedlings of jatobá, Hymenaea courbaril L. (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae) Biota Neotropica. 2(1):(http://www.biotaneotropica.org.br/v2n1/en/abstract?article+BN01602012002).
• Buckeridge,M.S. & Aidar, M.P.M. (2002) Carbon sequestration in the rain forest: alternatives using environmentally friendly biotechnology. Biota Neotropica 2(1): (http://www.biotaneotropica.org.br/v2n1/en/item?point-of-view).
• Gentry, Alwyn H. (1996). A Field Guide to the Families and Genera of Woody Plants of Northwest South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-28944-3.
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• Lee, Yin-Tse & Langenheim, Jean H. (1975). Systematics of the genus Hymenaea L. (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae, Detarieae). University of California Publications in Botany 69.
• Mabberley, D. J. (1987). The Plant Book: A Portable Dictionary of the Higher Plants. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-34060-8.
• Poinar, George Jr. & Brown, Alex E. (2002). Hymenaea mexicana sp. nov. (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae) from Mexican amber indicates Old World connections. Botanical J. of the Linnaean Soc. 139(2): 125.
• Santos, H.P., Purgato, E., Mercier, H. & Buckeridge, M.S. (2004) The control of storage xyloglucan mobilization in cotyledons of Hymenaea courbaril L. Plant Physiology 135:287-299.http://www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/content/abstract/135/1/287
• Santos, H.P. & Buckeridge, M.S. (2004) The role of the storage carbon of cotyledons in the establishment of seedlings of Hymenaea courbaril under different light conditions. Annals of Botany. 94(6) 819-830.http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/94/6/819