Bunchosia armeniaca

Peanut butter fruit
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Malpighiaceae
Genus: Bunchosia
Species: B. armeniaca
Binomial name
Bunchosia armeniaca
(Cav.) DC.
Synonyms[1]
  • Bunchosia armeniaca f. parvifolia Nied.
  • Bunchosia armeniaca f. systyla Nied.
  • Bunchosia pilocarpa Rusby
  • Malpighia armeniaca Cav.

Bunchosia armeniaca, commonly known as peanut butter fruit, is a species of shrub or tree in the family Malpighiaceae native to northwestern South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Brazil and Perú).[2][3]

Bunchosia armeniaca can attain a height of 20 meters, but it commonly reaches 5 meters high. It can be found between 100–2600 m of elevation in a wide range of ecological habitats.[4][5][6][7][8]

Bunchosia armeniaca yields an edible fruit and is cultivated in many places outside its native range.[9][10]

References

  1. ↑ The Plant List, Bunchosia armeniaca
  2. ↑ Tropicos, Bunchosia armeniaca
  3. ↑ Funk, V. A., P. E. Berry, S. Alexander, T. H. Hollowell & C. L. Kelloff. 2007. Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 55: 1–584
  4. ↑ Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de. 1824. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 1: 582, Bunchosia armeniaca
  5. ↑ Cavanilles, Antonio José. 1789. Monadelphiae Classis Dissertationes Decem 8: 410, t. 238, Malpighia armeniaca
  6. ↑ Rusby, Henry Hurd. 1907. Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden 4: 333, Bunchosia pilocarpa
  7. ↑ Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez. (eds.) 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador, Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75: i–viii, 1–1181. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
  8. ↑ Killeen, T. J., E. García Estigarribia & S. G. Beck. (eds.) 1993. Guía de Árboles de Bolivia 1–958. Herbario Nacional de Bolivia & Missouri Botanical Garden, Edit. Quipus srl., La Paz
  9. ↑ Fleurs fruits feuilles de l'Île de Réunion de d'ailleurs, Bunchosia armeniaca, bunchosie des Andes
  10. ↑ Fruit species, peanut butter fruit, Bunchosia armeniaca

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