AN EMu BASED ELECTRONICMONOGRAPH OF THEBRAZIL NUT FAMILY

Scott A. Mori

Nathaniel Lord BrittonCurator of Botany

seed harvest

largest seed in can of mixed nuts

THE BRAZIL NUT TREE

Bertholletia excelsaPhoto: A. Berkov

Gustavia monocaulisGustavia monocaulis

A species with actinomorphic flowers

A species withzygomorphic flowers

Lecythis persistensLecythis persistenssubsp. subsp. aurantiacaaurantiaca

SPECIESPAGES

01. AUTHORS02. CORRECT NAME03. SYNONYMS04. TYPES05. DESCRIPTION06. COMMON NAMES07. DISTRIBUTION08. ECOLOGY09. PHENOLOGY10. POLLINATION11. DISPERSAL12. PREDATION13. FIELD CHARACTERS14. TAXONOMIC NOTES15. ETYMOLOGY16 CONSERVATION17. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS18. SOURCE

Grias subbullataCornejo & S. A. Mori

(flower structure difficult to study)

Grias neuberthii

Grias purpuripetala

ANDROECIA OF TWOSPECIES OF GRIAS

FLORAL FEATURES EASILYOBSERVED FROM IMAGES

OF LIVING PLANTS

ELECTRONIC KEY FROM THE LECYTHIDACEAE PAGES(prepared using Lucid 3)

CHARACTERS TAXA

CHARACTERS USED TAXA ELIMINATED

select pachycaul

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LINK TOGLOSSARY

provides definition andimages illustrating

the term

THE GENUS HAS BEEN KEYED OUT TO GRIAS

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THE GENUS PAGE FORGRIAS APPEARS

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DOES EMu ONLY MAP TO SPECIES?

both subspecies of Lecythis corrugata have the same online map

subsp. roseasubsp. corrugata

MISLEADING DISTRIBUTION OF A LICHEN

NOT ALL OF THE 800 COLLECTIONS OF THIS SPECIES ARE MAPPED

SEARCHES ARE CALLED OUT IN NO PARTICULAR ORDERAND DUPLICATES REPEATED

IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS NEED MORE SPACE IF POSSIBLE

GENERATE SPECIES DESCRIPTIONSAND PREPARE KEYS

DATABASEMODULE

GENERATESDESCRIPTION

KEYS BASEDON

DESCRIPTION

MOST RECENTCLADOGRAM

OF NEOTROPICALLECYTHIS

By

Huang et al., 2011

XAVIER CORNEJO

NATE SMITH

ALREADY IN THECLOUD

BUILD UPON WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED