Hirtella is a genus of 110 species of woody trees in family Chrysobalanaceae .[2] It was first described as a genus by Linnaeus in 1753.[3] [4] [5] [6] Hirtella naturally occurs in tropical forests throughout Latin America , the West Indies , southeast Africa , and Madagascar .[1] [7] [8] The flowers are mainly pollinated by butterflies.[9]
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Hirtella racemosa, Belize
List of accepted species according to Kew:[1]
Hirtella adderleyi - S Venezuela
Hirtella adenophora - Meta
Hirtella aequatoriensis - Ecuador
Hirtella americana - Guerrero to Ecuador; Cuba, Dom Rep
Hirtella angustifolia - Brazil
Hirtella angustissima - Guyana, Fr Guiana
Hirtella araguariensis - N Brazil, Fr Guiana
Hirtella aramangensis - N Peru
Hirtella arenosa - N Brazil
Hirtella bahiensis - Bahia , Espírito Santo
Hirtella barnebyi - Rondônia
Hirtella barrosoi - Rio de Janeiro
Hirtella beckii - Bolivia
Hirtella bicornis - trop South America
Hirtella brachystachys - SE Colombia, S Venezuela, NW Brazil
Hirtella bullata - N South America
Hirtella burchellii - Brazil, Peru, Bolivia
Hirtella caduca - Guyana, Bolívar
Hirtella carbonaria - S Colombia, N Ecuador
Hirtella castillana - SE Colombia, S Venezuela
Hirtella ciliata - Guyana, Fr Guiana, Brazil
Hirtella conduplicata - Amazonas B
Hirtella confertiflora - Amazonas V
Hirtella cordifolia - Amazonas V
Hirtella corymbosa - Bahia , Espírito Santo
Hirtella couepiiflora - Fr Guiana, Amapá
Hirtella cowanii - Amazonas V
Hirtella davisii - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Venezuela, N Brazil, Fr Guiana, Guyana
Hirtella deflexa - S Venezuela
Hirtella dorvalii - N Brazil
Hirtella duckei - trop South America
Hirtella elongata - NW South America
Hirtella enneandra - Colombia
Hirtella eriandra - trop South America
Hirtella excelsa - W South America
Hirtella fasciculata - N Brazil
Hirtella floribunda - Minas Gerais
Hirtella glabrata - S Venezuela, N Brazil
Hirtella glandulistipula - Fr Guiana, N Brazil
Hirtella glandulosa - trop South America
Hirtella glaziovii - S Brazil
Hirtella gracilipes - trop South America
Hirtella guainiae - trop South America
Hirtella guatemalensis - Central America
Hirtella guyanensis - Venezuela, Guyana
Hirtella hebeclada - SE Brazil
Hirtella hispidula - trop South America
Hirtella hoehnei - Brazil
Hirtella insignis - Bahia , Espírito Santo
Hirtella juruenensis - Mato Grosso
Hirtella kuhlmannii - Mato Grosso , Pará
Hirtella lancifolia - Pará
Hirtella latifolia - Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
Hirtella lemsii - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras
Hirtella leonotis - N Colombia, N Venezuela
Hirtella liesneri - SE Colombia, S Venezuela
Hirtella lightioides - Peru, Bolivia
Hirtella longifolia - Amazonas B
Hirtella longipedicellata - N Brazil, S Venezuela
Hirtella macrophylla - trop South America
Hirtella macrosepala - E Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname
Hirtella magnifolia - SE Colombia, N Peru, N Brazil
Hirtella maguirei - Meta
Hirtella margae - Guyana, Suriname, Fr Guiana
Hirtella martiana - Brazil
Hirtella mucronata - Guyana, Suriname, N Brazil
Hirtella mutisii - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Hirtella myrmecophila - N Brazil
Hirtella obidensis - Guyana, Suriname, N Brazil
Hirtella orbicularis - Cerro Duida
Hirtella paniculata - St. Vincent , Trinidad, N South America
Hirtella papillata - Costa Rica, Honduras
Hirtella paraensis - NE Brazil
Hirtella parviunguis - Espírito Santo
Hirtella pauciflora - Ecuador
Hirtella pendula - Lesser Antilles
Hirtella physophora - N South America
Hirtella pilosissima - trop South America
Hirtella pimichina - S Venezuela, N Brazil
Hirtella piresii - trop South America
Hirtella punctillata - NE South America
Hirtella racemosa - Veracruz to Bolivia, Trinidad, Jamaica
Hirtella radamii - Roraima
Hirtella rasa - Peru, Acre
Hirtella revillae - N Peru
Hirtella rodriguesii - Loreto , NW Brazil
Hirtella rugosa - Puerto Rico, Dom Rep
Hirtella santosii - Bahia
Hirtella scaberula - Amazonas B
Hirtella scabra - N South America
Hirtella schultesii - NW South America
Hirtella silicea - NE South America, Trinidad
Hirtella sprucei - Brazil
Hirtella standleyi - Loreto
Hirtella subglanduligera - Acre
Hirtella subscandens - S Venezuela, N Brazil
Hirtella suffulta - N Brazil, Fr Guiana
Hirtella tentaculata - NE South America
Hirtella tenuifolia - N Brazil, Fr Guiana, Suriname
Hirtella thouarsiana - Madagascar
Hirtella tocantina - N Brazil, Peru, Bolivia
Hirtella triandra - West Indies; C Mexico to Bolivia
Hirtella trichotoma - Costa Rica
Hirtella tubiflora - Costa Rica to Ecuador
Hirtella ulei - SE Colombia, S Venezuela, N Brazil
Hirtella vesiculosa - SE Colombia
Hirtella zanzibarica - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia
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