Bagassa

[Dipteryx]

Obviously the new Flora Neotropica volume is an excellent reference.
(Also the earlier Flora of the Guianas)
I was just assuming that entomologists do not have it handy.

The Tropicos-database is indeed a great resource, but not infallible.
The other day I was looking at two Ocotea-species which had been reduced to
synonymy by Jens Rohwer in 1986, namely 1) Ocotea barcellensis, now Ocotea
cymbarum, and 2) Ocotea pretiosa now Ocotea odorifera.
The Tropicos database follows only the first and maintains Ocotea pretiosa
and Ocotea odorifera as separate species. Apparently this is because the
first does occur in the area of the Flora of the Venezuelan Guyana and thus
was reviewed by the Missouri Botanical Garden, while the second occurs
outside this area and was not reviewed?

Best, Paul van Rijckevorsel

----- Original Message -----
From: Reynaldo Linares Palomino <0128129 at SMS.ED.AC.UK>
To: <TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG>
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: Bagassa


> Sorry for the previous mail, here is a readable text:
>
> On the MOBOT W-3 Tropicos Database you'll find the following
> information:
>
> Bagassa guianensis Aubl.
> Family - MORACEAE - Mulberry Family
> Published in: Histoire des plantes de la Guiane Françoise 2(Suppl.):
> 15, t. 376. 1775. {Hist. Pl. Guiane }
> Annotation: on plate as "Guyannensis"
> Type - specimen(s)
>
> HT: Aublet s.n., French Guiana (BM; IT: NY).
>
> With four synonyms:
>
> Bagassa sagotiana Bureau
> Bagassa tiliifolia (Gaudich.) Benoist
> Laurea tiliifolia Gaudich.
> Piper tiliaefolium Desv. ex Ham.
>
> Have also a look at C. C. Berg's Flora Neotropica Monograph 83
> (2001) "Moreae, Artocarpeae, and Dorstenia (Moraceae) with
> introductions to the family and Ficus and with additions and
> corrections to Flora Neotropica Monograph 7"
>
> Reynaldo
>