Licania apetala
Chrysobalanaceae FAMILY

Licania apetala

Licania apetala

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitTree
Growth—

Often found on sandy soils in the wild[1].

Propagation

Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Licania+apetala>

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

  1. [1]Opiliaceae. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 12: 1-71 — Hiepko P. · Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève; Switze · 2008 · http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb · ISBN 978-2-8277-0451-4 ↩︎An excellent monograph, part of a very ambitious project to catalogue all the plants in the world. It can be downloaded from the Internet.
  2. [2]Fruits of the Guianan Flora — van Roosmalen. M.G.M. · Institute of Systematic Boyany, Utrecht University; Netherlands. · 1985 · ISBN 90-9000988-4 ↩︎Terse descriptions of over 1,700 species from the Guianas that bear fruits - not necessarily edible! Often mentions if the fruit is edible, plus gives brief description of habit and habitat.
  3. [3]Botanical Museum Leaflets Vol 28 — Harvard University; Cambridge, Mass. · 1981 · http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org ↩︎An article on the Ethnopharmacological uses of plants in northwestern S. America, amongst many other articles. It can be downloaded from the Internet.
  4. [4]Chrysobalanaceae Part 1. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 9: 1-319 — Prance G.T.; Sothers C.A. · Australian Biological Resources Study; Canberra. · 2003 · http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb · ISBN 0 642 56832 4 ↩︎An excellent monograph, part of a very ambitious project to catalogue all the plants in the world. It can be downloaded as a PDF file from the Internet.
  5. [5]Dictionary of Economic Plants. — Uphof. J. C. Th. · Weinheim · 1959 · ISBN - ↩︎An excellent and very comprehensive guide but it only gives very short descriptions of the uses without any details of how to utilize the plants. Not for the casual reader.
  6. [6]Woods of Northeastern Peru — Williams L. · Field Museum Press; Chicago. · 1936 · http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ ↩︎Gives information on the properties of the wood of well over 1,000 species of woody plants from northeastern Peru. Can be downloaded from the Internet.