Lonchocarpus cultratus (Vellozo 1825: 301) Azevedo

Rauber, Cristiane Ritter, Lima, Laura Cristina Pires, Caxambu, Marcelo Galeazzi & Temponi, Lívia Godinho, 2021, Synopsis of Leguminosae from Iguaçu National Park, Paraná, Brazil, Phytotaxa 501 (2), pp. 245-280 : 261-263

34. Lonchocarpus cultratus (Vellozo 1825: 301) Azevedo & Lima (1995: 128). ( Fig. 4L – Fig.6A )

Distribution: This species is restricted to South America: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru ( Silva & Tozzi 2012); in Brazil it occurs in the states of all regions but in the Central-west region it occurs only in the Distrito Federal ( Flora do Brasil 2020). In ParNa Iguaçu it occurs in the Capanema area.

Reproductive period: It flowers and fruits principally from November to April, but with a greater degree of fruiting between April and May ( Silva & Tozzi 2012). In ParNa Iguaçu it was found in flower in April.

Diagnostic characteristics: Trees with pinnate leaves recognized by young branches, petioles, rachises and petiolules sparsely hyaline-to rufescent-pubescent, predominantly elliptical leaflets, pseudoracemose inflorescences, each node with 2 flowers held in a Y-shape by the flower pedicels ( Silva & Tozzi 2012).

Conservation: Native–NE.

Selected examined material: BRAZIL. Paraná: Capanema , 3 April 2019, (fl., fr.), C.R. Rauber et al. 365 ( UNOP) .

Figures

FIGURE 4. A: Dalbergia frutescens, branches with fruit; B and C: Desmodium affine: B: inflorescence; C: fruit; D, E and F: Desmodium incanum: D: branch with inflorescence; E: stipule; F: flower; G: Erythrina falcata, inflorescence; H: Gleditsia amorphoides, thorns; I: Inga marginata, branch with inflorescence; J: Inga striata, branch with inflorescence; K: Inga vera, branch with inflorescence; L: Lonchocarpus cultratus, branch with inflorescence. (Rauber CR 2018)

FIGURE 6.A:Lonchocarpus cultratus, flower; Band C:Machaerium hirtum:B: branch withinflorescence;C:fruit;D: Macropsychanthus violaceus, flower; E and F: Macroptilium erythroloma: E: inflorescence; F: infructescence; G and H: Mimosa pigra: G: branch with inflorescence; H: infructescence; I and J: Mucuna urens: I: branch with inflorescence; J: inflorescence; K: Parapiptadenia rigida, branch with fruit; L: Schnella microstachya, fruit. (Rauber CR 2018)