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Lecythis ollaria L.

Monkeypod; Ollaria Monkeypottree; Lecythis

Lecythidaceae · Venezuela

No habitat climate

Summary

Lecythis ollaria (paradise nut) is a species of tree found growing in forests in Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela. The tree is known locally as coco de mono, and accumulates selenium in its tissues.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Lecythis ollaria", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 13 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 13 of the 13 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.

Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

NativeVenezuela · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).

Map marker9.17, -68.83 · in the densest population, 8 records (62% of those in range)

Kew's description“tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 13 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 5 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 13 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

How this section is made

The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 13 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Other Lecythis 2 in the reference

Lecythis minor Lecythis Photo: CC BY, Nicolás Baresch Uribe

Lecythis tuyrana Lecythidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, AGROFOR2007

Names & registers

Also known as Eschweilera cordata; Lecythis cordata; Lecythis nobilis. (GBIF Backbone)

GBIF POWO IPNI WFO Wikidata Wikipedia iNaturalist

The record

Family

Lecythidaceae

Described by

Native to

Venezuela

Wild records

13 in range · 13 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22

GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22

GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22

GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22

WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04

GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21

Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2213 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km

Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by its label; its IPNI identifier 597300-1 is Kew's for Lecythis ollaria L.

Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22

iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22

iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked

GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22

Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22

OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 8 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.