Lonchocarpus
Genus in the Global Pollen Project's Master Reference Collection
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Distribution
© Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings (licence)Lancepod
Lonchocarpus is a plant genus in the legume family (Fabaceae). The species are called lancepods due to their fruit resembling an ornate lance tip or a few beads on a string. Cubé resin is produced from the roots of L. urucu and namely ''L. utilis (cubé). It contains enough of the toxic rotenoids rotenone and deguelin to be used as an insecticide and piscicide. As these are naturally occurring ... © Wikipedia authors and editors (licence)
See more in the Encyclopedia of Life... Definition
- Parent Taxon
- Leguminosae
- Species
- Taxonomic Completion
0.47%
1 of 211 accepted Species- Global Pollen Project UUID
- cbdafd2b-cd3b-44f7-8f5c-57fb1846c0b3
- Botanical Reference
- None available. You can check The Plant List for further information.
Connected data sources
This taxon is currently linked to the following locations.
The Plant ListGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility