Licania Aubl., Hist. Pl. Guiane

Barros, Natália, Menezes, Luis Fernando Tavares de, Sothers, Cynthia & Peixoto, Ariane Luna, 2025, Flora of Espírito Santo: Chrysobalanaceae, Rodriguesia (e 00872024) 76, pp. 1-39 : 26

7. Licania Aubl., Hist. Pl. Guiane 1: 119. 1775.

Trees or shrubs. Leaf variously pilose or glabrous, with or without stomatal crypts;

petiole with a pair of glands present or absent. Inflorescences racemose panicles, panicles or spikes; bracteoles usually much shorter than or rarely equaling calyx, not enclosing flower buds.

Petals absent. Sepals subequal, acute. Stamens 2–7

(8–11), unilateral or less frequently inserted in a complete circle; filaments shorter than or equaling the calyx lobes, mostly free to base and glabrous or less often sparsely pubescent. Ovary 1-carpellate,

pilose, inserted at the base of receptacle, style filiform. Drupe globose to ellipsoid, epicarp tomentose, pubescent, pulverulent, or smooth.

( Prance & Sothers 2003a; Sothers et al. 2016)

The genus comprises ca. 100 species,

distributed throughout the Neotropics ( Sothers et al. 2016). In Brazil, there are 74 species of Licania ,

present in all states of the North, Central-West and Southeast regions and in seven states of the

Northeast region ( Sothers & Prance 2023f). In EspÍrito Santo it is represented by 12 species .