Descripcion
Shrub or small tree, to 5 m, densely stellate. Leaves deltoid-orbicular, often wider than long, 2-5 x 2.5-7 (-9) cm. Flowers in short racemes, relatively large, orange-yellow, showy stamens (3-) 5-7 fertile and 1-5 sta- minodal. Fruits dehiscent, densely stellate yellow berries 1-3 cm in diam on pedicels and gynophores 2-3 cm long; seeds 3-8 (- 12), cochleate reniform, 6-8 mm long with the coriaceous testa covered by a white to yellowish sarcotesta (pulp!) infiltrated by many slender, unicellular unbranched hairs from the testa (Fig. 1), at maturity more or less stuck together as a "seed package" that cleanly separates itself from the 2-4 flexible and leathery fruit coat segments and falls to the ground as a unit; embryo snow white.
Distribucion y Habitat
Common in semi-deciduous dry forests of the Chaco vegetational province, from north- western Argentina to Bolivia and Paraguay, and extending, but barely, into southwestern Brazil at Corumbá.
Sinónimos
Capparicordis tweediana (Eichler) H.H. Iltis & X. Cornejo
Bibliografía
Ejemplares de referencia
Colector | N° Colect. | Especie | Departamento | Provincia | Imagen |
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618 | Formosa | Formosa | ||
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552 | Boquerón | |||
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1054 | Boquerón | |||
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1822 | Colonia Fernheim | Boquerón | ||
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2219 | Matacos | Formosa | ||
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523 | Formosa | Formosa | ||
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7075 | Caballero | Santa Cruz | ||
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11631 | Gran Chaco | Tarija | ||
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18446 | Ñeembucú | |||
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-1 | 408612 ctes | 12 de Octubre | Chaco | |
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11 | Nueva Asunción | |||
|
-1 | (si 23669) | Paraná | Entre Ríos | |
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23667 | Paraná | Entre Ríos | ||
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23668 | Paraná | Entre Ríos | ||
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23669 | Paraná | Entre Ríos | ||
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25937 | Paraná | Entre Ríos | ||
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27942 | Paraná | Entre Ríos | ||
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30457 | Santa Bárbara | Jujuy | ||
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30459 | Santa Bárbara | Jujuy | ||
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27960 | Ledesma | Jujuy | ||
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29839 | Orán | Salta | ||
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32086 | San Pedro | Jujuy | ||
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33609 | Cordillera | Santa Cruz | ||
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7339 | Choya | Santiago del Estero | ||
|
7366 | Choya | Santiago del Estero | ||
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20227 | Pirané | Formosa | ||
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21373 | Nueva Asunción | |||
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1204 | Capital | Tucumán | ||
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1375 | - | |||
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51 | San Pedro | Jujuy | ||
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3710 | General Obligado | Santa Fe | ||
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3188 | Boquerón | |||
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71 | Bermejo | Formosa | ||
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1278 | General Güemes | Chaco | ||
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1279 | General Güemes | Chaco | ||
|
2892 | Pilcomayo | Formosa | ||
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3039 | Patiño | Formosa | ||
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5133 | Choya | Santiago del Estero | ||
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6385 | Almirante Brown | Chaco | ||
|
18 | Patiño | Formosa | ||
|
49 | Patiño | Formosa | ||
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59 | Patiño | Formosa | ||
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60 | Patiño | Formosa | ||
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61 | Patiño | Formosa | ||
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62 | Patiño | Formosa | ||
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63 | Patiño | Formosa | ||
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64 | Patiño | Formosa | ||
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68 | Patiño | Formosa | ||
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601 | Patiño | Formosa | ||
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2584 | Anta | Salta | ||
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49243 | Mato Grosso do Sul | |||
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17908 | Guasayán | Santiago del Estero | ||
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17942 | Choya | Santiago del Estero | ||
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19500 | Orán | Salta | ||
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20701 | Guasayán | Santiago del Estero | ||
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1975 | Bermejo | Chaco | ||
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1913 | General Güemes | Salta | ||
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6401 | Mercedes | Corrientes | ||
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46822 | General Güemes | Chaco | ||
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46889 | General Güemes | Chaco | ||
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71 | Guasayán | Santiago del Estero | ||
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614 | General Obligado | Santa Fe | ||
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74 | Vera | Santa Fe | ||
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265 | Rivadavia | Salta | ||
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225 | 9 de Julio | Chaco | ||
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7 | General Güemes | Chaco | ||
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11 | Formosa | |||
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1909 | Jujuy | |||
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2011 | Chiquitos | Santa Cruz | ||
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1581 | Presidente Hayes | |||
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1042 | Presidencia de la Plaza | Chaco | ||
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9709 | Boquerón | |||
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171 | Vera | Santa Fe | ||
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2842 | General Güemes | Salta | ||
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654 | Rivadavia | Salta | ||
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11 | Copo | Santiago del Estero | ||
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12 | Copo | Santiago del Estero | ||
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13 | Copo | Santiago del Estero | ||
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14 | Copo | Santiago del Estero | ||
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6558 | Vera | Santa Fe | ||
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6659 | Vera | Santa Fe | ||
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8513 | Pirané | Formosa | ||
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139 | Vera | Santa Fe | ||
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171 | Santa Fe | |||
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193 | Vera | Santa Fe | ||
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13495 | Anta | Salta | ||
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300 | Chaco | |||
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327 | Chaco | |||
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397 | Chaco | |||
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492 | Chaco | |||
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2288 | Anta | Salta | ||
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453 | Rivadavia | Salta | ||
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723 | Bermejo | Formosa | ||
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17 | General Güemes | Chaco | ||
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26 | General Güemes | Chaco | ||
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9666 | Capital | Corrientes | ||
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15036 | -- | Chaco | ||
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18021 | -- | Chaco | ||
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18091 | Alto Paraguay | |||
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567 | Bermejo | Formosa | ||
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2307 | Laishí | Formosa | ||
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1140 | Presidente Hayes | |||
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58 | FR | Almirante Brown | Chaco | |
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-1 | 74 | Misiones | ||
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2002 | Presidente Hayes | |||
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2014 | Presidente Hayes | |||
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2027 | Palpalá | Jujuy | ||
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962 | Choya | Santiago del Estero | ||
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1686 | Choya | Santiago del Estero | ||
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1795 | Boquerón | |||
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4276 | Bermejo | Formosa | ||
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1371 | Tarija | |||
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7105 | Ledesma | Jujuy |
Nombre Vulgar y Usos
Tipo y Observaciones
Material Tipo: Basónimo: Capparis tweediana Eichler
Observaciones: According to Tweedie (in K), the flowers
bloom "most of the year... [are] very sweet
sented (sic!) and the fruit of it are carefully
flattened and eaten by the natives...
[who] ... called it "arbol de guacu [guagu]."
Illustrations of the species can be found in
Franceschini & Tressens (2004), a remark-
able study touching on C. tweediana (see pp.
209-218, esp. figs. 1, 3, & 5). Also, a beauti-
ful photo of this species can be seen at http://
fm2.fieldmuseum.org/plantguides/view.asp
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