Although the genus Lecythis is exclusively neotropical, the type specimen of Lecythis lanceolata was collected from a tree cultivated on the island of Mauritius in the southwest Indian Ocean, off the southeast coast of Africa. Philibert Commerçon had originally collected the plant near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on his world voyage with Louis Antoine de Bougainville in 1767.
Lecythis lanceolata is a species of woody plant in the family Lecythidaceae of the order Ericales. It is endemic to the Atlantic Forest ecoregion in southeast Brazil, where is known as sapucaia-mirim. It was described by Jean Louis Marie Poiret in 1804.[2]
Lecythis lanceolata is a species of woody plant in the family Lecythidaceae of the order Ericales. It is endemic to the Atlantic Forest ecoregion in southeast Brazil, where is known as sapucaia-mirim. It was described by Jean Louis Marie Poiret in 1804.
