Lecythidaceae
Cream nut
Lecythis pisonis
- Family
- Lecythidaceae
- Genus
- Lecythis
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Common names
By language (5)
- arz
- ليسيثيس بيسونيس
- Chinese
- 猴钵树
- English
- Cream nut
- Esperanto
- Sapukajo
- Portuguese
- Cumbuca-de-macaco, Quatetê, Sapucaia, Sapucaieira, Cabeça-de-macaco, Castanha-de-sapucaia
Synonyms
- Couroupita crenulata Miers
- Couroupita lentula Miers
- Lecythis amapaensis Ledoux
- Lecythis amazonii Mart. ex O.Berg
- Lecythis densa Miers
- Lecythis hoppiana R.Knuth
- Lecythis ollaria Vell.
- Lecythis ollaria Spruce
- Lecythis paraensis Huber ex Ducke
- Lecythis paraensis Huber
- Lecythis pilaris Miers
- Lecythis pisonis subsp. usitata (Miers) S.A.Mori & Prance
- Lecythis setifera Miers
- Lecythis sphaeroides Miers
- Lecythis urnigera Mart.
- Lecythis usitata Miers
- Lecythis usitata var. paraensis (Huber ex Ducke) R.Knuth
- Lecythis usitata var. tenuifolia R.Knuth
- Lecythis velloziana Miers
- Pachylecythis egleri Ledoux
Photos
FruitPhoto: André Ambrozio, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FruitPhoto: Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FruitPhoto: Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FruitPhoto: Celso Henrique Varela Rios, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Henrique Bitencourt, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Fabricio Carvalho da Silva, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.