Cecropia [3] ( lat. Cecropia ) is a genus of plants of the Nettle family ( Urticaceae ), distributed mainly in the humid tropical forests of Central and South America .
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Thyroid cecropia - a typical species of the genus |
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Cecropia Loefl. (1758), nom. cons. |
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Cecropia peltata L. - Thyroid cecropia [2] |
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Fast-growing, mostly evergreen trees with hollow stems, sometimes with props. The leaves are large, thyroid, usually palmate, on long petioles. The flowers are small, nondescript, dioecious, in dense spike-shaped inflorescences, collected and bunches on common legs in the axils of the leaves. Fruits are single-seeded, numerous.
Mymecophilia is characteristic of some species. A fertilized female ante from the genus Azteca gnaws at the wall of a hollow stem thinned at the top of the internode and displays its offspring inside the stem. Ants feed on special outgrowths (nutrient bodies) that form on the inside of the swollen bases of leaf petioles. It is believed that ants from this genus protect cecropia from the attack of leaf-cutting ants (from the genera Atta , Acromyrmex ).
Among the myrmecophiles is cecropia thyroid ( Cecropia peltata ), also called the “trumpet tree," because the Indians made their wind pipes from its hollow stems. The thyroid cecropia trunks split in half are used as gutters.
Cecropia angustifolia trécul
Cecropia obtusifolia Bertol. The genus Cecropia includes up to 70 species [4] :
- Cecropia albicans trécul
- Cecropia andina Cuatrec.
- Cecropia angulata IWBailey
- Cecropia angustifolia trécul
- Cecropia annulata CCBerg & P.Franco
- Cecropia bullata CCBerg & P. Franco
- Cecropia chlorostachya CCBerg & P.Franco
- Cecropia concolor Willd.
- Cecropia david-smithii CCBerg
- Cecropia dealbata BSWilliams
- Cecropia distachya huber
- Cecropia elongata Rusby
- Cecropia engleriana Snethl.
- Cecropia ficifolia Warb. ex Snethl.
- Cecropia gabrielis Cuatrec.
- Cecropia garciae Standl.
- Cecropia glaziovii Snethl.
- Cecropia goudotiana trécul
- Cecropia granvilleana CCBerg
- Cecropia herthae diels
- Cecropia heterochroma CCBerg & P. Franco
- Cecropia hispidissima Cuatrec.
- Cecropia hololeuca Miq.
- Cecropia idroboi Cuatrec.
- Cecropia insignis Liebm.
- Cecropia kavanayensis Cuatrec.
- Cecropia latiloba miq.
- Cecropia litoralis Snethl.
- Cecropia longipes pittier
- Cecropia marginalis Cuatrec.
- Cecropia maxima Snethl.
- Cecropia megastachya Cuatrec.
- Cecropia membranacea trécul
- Cecropia metensis Cuatrec.
- Cecropia montana warb. ex Snethl.
- Cecropia multisecta P. Franco & CCBerg
- Cecropia mutisiana Mildbr.
- Cecropia obtusa trécul
- Cecropia obtusifolia Bertol.
- Cecropia pachystachya trécul
- Cecropia palmata Willd.
- Cecropia pastasana diels
- Cecropia peltata L. - Thyroid cecropia typus [2]
- Cecropia pittieri BLRob. ex A.Stewart
- Cecropia plicata Cuatrec.
- Cecropia polystachya trécul
- Cecropia purpurascens CCBerg
- Cecropia putumayonis Cuatrec.
- Cecropia radlkoferana Alad.Richt.
- Cecropia reticulata Cuatrec.
- Cecropia sararensis Cuatrec.
- Cecropia saxatilis Snethl.
- Cecropia schreberiana Miq.
- Cecropia sciadophylla Mart.
- Cecropia silvae CCBerg
- Cecropia strigosa trécul
- Cecropia subintegra Cuatrec.
- Cecropia tacuna CCBerg & P.Franco
- Cecropia telealba Cuatrec.
- Cecropia telenitida Cuatrec.
- Cecropia ulei Snethl.
- Cecropia utcubambana Cuatrec.
- Cecropia velutinella diels
- Cecropia virgusa Cuatrec.
- ↑ For the conventionality of indicating the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
- ↑ 1 2 NCU-3e. Names in current use for extant plant genera. Electronic version 1.0. Entry for Cecropia Loefl. (English) (Retrieved February 14, 2012)
- ↑ Russian name of the taxon - according to the following edition:
- Schroeter A.I. , Panasyuk V.A. Dictionary of Plant Names = Dictionary of Plant Names / Int. union biol. Sciences, Nat. Biologists of Russia, Vseros. instit lek. and aromatic. plants Ros. agricultural farm. academies; Ed. prof. V.A. Bykova. - Koenigstein: Koeltz Scientific Books, 1999 .-- S. 163. - 1033 p. - ISBN 3-87429-398-X .
- ↑ List of species of the genus Cecropia on The Plant List (English) (Retrieved February 14, 2012)
- Grudzinskaya I.A. Cecropia family (Cecropiaceae) // Plant Life. In 6 t. / Ch. ed. Al A. Fedorov; ed. volumes A. L. Takhtadzhyan. - M .: Education, 1980. - T. 5. Part 1. Flowering plants. - S. 282-284. - 430 s. - 300,000 copies.
