flora neotropica - CNCFlora

Systematic Treatment 97
(INPA, NY); Santo Ant6nio de Iga, 19 Aug 1973 (fr),
Lleras et al. P17397 (INPA, NY).
Local name. castanha de cotia.
Uses. The fleshy cotyledons are edible and the
fruits are gathered in large numbers by Brazilians
in the Rio Ituxi region. The kernel is eaten raw
or is crushed and added to their tapioca cakes
(beiju). Its oil is also extracted and used for cooking
and soap making.
The fact that I have already placed this most
distinctive new species in two genera indicates
9-1. Neocarya macrophylla (Sabine) Prance in
F. White, Bull. Jard. Bot. Etat. 46: 308. 1976.
The eight genera treated above are those in-
digenous to the neotropics. The monotypic West
African genus Neocarya is grown at the Summit
Botanical Garden in Panama and so it is men-
tioned briefly here. Neocarya is described in full
in Prance and White (1988), and is a segregate
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
its problematic nature. It is quite unlike any others.
It resembles Acioa vegetatively and in many
floral features, but does not have what was previously
considered to be the central, uniting character
of the genus: the stamens fused into a ligule.
A recent review of the genera (Prance & White,
1988) showed that it is best placed inAcioa rather
than Couepia even though it does not have the
fused stamens. This species forms a link with
Couepia, a genus in which fused stamens never
occur.
9. Neocarya Prance
I am especially grateful to Mrs. Edith Topfler
for the preparation of most of the distribution
maps and for many hours of painstaking vol-
unteer work for this project. I also particularly
thank Carol Gracie for the preparation of the
final version of the maps, and Bobbi Angell for
drawings of the new species. I am grateful to
Rosemary Lawlor and Mickey Maroncelli for the
typing and word processing of various drafts of
this manuscript and to H. David Hammond,
William R. Anderson, and two anonymous re-
viewers for reviewing an earlier draft. Most of
from the closely related genus Parinari. It differs
in the large gibbous receptacle, the greater num-
ber of stamens and the very different fruit struc-
ture.
Specimen examined. PANAMA. CANAL AREA: Sum-
mit Garden, 6 May 1986 (fl), de Nevers et al. 7726
(MO, NY).
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