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Internal ID UUID643fd758db094062008726
Scientific name Eperua falcata
Authority Aubl.
First published in Hist. Pl. Guiane1: 369 (1775)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Dimorpha falcata (Aubl.) Forsyth f. Bot. Nomencl.: 391 (1794)
Panzera falcata (Aubl.) Willd. Sp. Pl., ed. 4, 2: 540 (1799)

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Language Common/alternative name
English wallaba
English wallaba tree

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  • Southern America
    • Brazil
      • Brazil North
    • Caribbean
      • Trinidad-Tobago
    • Northern South America
      • French Guiana
      • Guyana
      • Suriname
      • Venezuela
    • Western South America
      • Colombia

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000174107
UNII FN1S1147IQ
Tropicos 13030093
INPN 733645
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:493934-1
The Plant List ild-20220
Open Tree Of Life 230415
Observations.org 395017
NCBI Taxonomy 162769
IUCN Red List 62025250
IPNI 493934-1
iNaturalist 465991
GBIF 2943522
EOL 8682787
Elurikkus 338644
USDA GRIN 436165
Wikipedia Eperua_falcata

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Accession Assembly
Name Level Submitter Released Coverage Size
GCA_056900615.1 ASM5690061v1 Scaffold Iridian Genomes 2026-04-26 60 232.72 Mb

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Different profiles of soil phosphorous compounds depending on tree species and availability of soil phosphorus in a tropical rainforest in French Guiana Gargallo-Garriga A, Sardans J, Llusià J, Peguero G, Ayala-Roque M, Courtois EA, Stahl C, Urban O, Klem K, Nolis P, Pérez-Trujillo M, Parella T, Richter A, Janssens IA, Peñuelas J BMC Plant Biol 12-Apr-2024
PMCID:PMC11010349
doi:10.1186/s12870-024-04907-x
PMID:38609866
The links between wood traits and species demography change during tree development in a lowland tropical rainforest González-Melo A, Posada JM, Beauchêne J, Lehnebach R, Levionnois S, Derroire G, Clair B AoB Plants 27-Dec-2023
PMCID:PMC10799319
doi:10.1093/aobpla/plad090
PMID:38249523
Phytolith assemblages reflect variability in human land use and the modern environment Witteveen NH, White C, Sanchez Martinez BA, Booij R, Philip A, Gosling WD, Bush MB, McMichael CN Veg Hist Archaeobot 27-Jun-2023
PMCID:PMC10884070
doi:10.1007/s00334-023-00932-2
PMID:38404455
Applying molecular and genetic methods to trees and their fungal communities Müller M, Kües U, Budde KB, Gailing O Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 29-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10106355
doi:10.1007/s00253-023-12480-w
PMID:36988668
Rethinking the nature of intraspecific variability and its consequences on species coexistence Girard‐Tercieux C, Maréchaux I, Clark AT, Clark JS, Courbaud B, Fortunel C, Guillemot J, Künstler G, le Maire G, Pélissier R, Rüger N, Vieilledent G Ecol Evol 07-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC9992775
doi:10.1002/ece3.9860
PMID:36911314
Co-developing an international TLS network for the 3D ecological understanding of global trees: System architecture, remote sensing models, and functional prospects Lin Y, Filin S, Billen R, Mizoue N Environ Sci Ecotechnol 21-Feb-2023
PMCID:PMC10024182
doi:10.1016/j.ese.2023.100257
PMID:36941885
Genome-wide characterization leading to simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers development in Shorea robusta Mishra G, Meena RK, Kant R, Pandey S, Ginwal HS, Bhandari MS Funct Integr Genomics 28-Jan-2023
PMCID:PMC9883139
doi:10.1007/s10142-023-00975-8
PMID:36707443
First evidence of a monodominant (Englerodendron, Amherstieae, Detarioideae, Leguminosae) tropical moist forest from the early Miocene (21.73 Ma) of Ethiopia Pan AD, Jacobs BF, Bush RT, de la Estrella M, Grímsson F, Herendeen PS, van der Burgt XM, Currano ED PLoS One 11-Jan-2023
PMCID:PMC9833558
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0279491
PMID:36630378
Pit characters determine drought-induced embolism resistance of leaf xylem across 18 Neotropical tree species Levionnois S, Kaack L, Heuret P, Abel N, Ziegler C, Coste S, Stahl C, Jansen S Plant Physiol 14-May-2022
PMCID:PMC9434246
doi:10.1093/plphys/kiac223
PMID:35567500
Tree Species and Epiphyte Taxa Determine the “Metabolomic niche” of Canopy Suspended Soils in a Species-Rich Lowland Tropical Rainforest Gargallo-Garriga A, Sardans J, Alrefaei AF, Klem K, Fuchslueger L, Ramírez-Rojas I, Donald J, Leroy C, Langenhove LV, Verbruggen E, Janssens IA, Urban O, Peñuelas J Metabolites 21-Oct-2021
PMCID:PMC8621298
doi:10.3390/metabo11110718
PMID:34822376
Usage of Synthetic Peptides in Cosmetics for Sensitive Skin Resende DI, Ferreira MS, Sousa-Lobo JM, Sousa E, Almeida IF Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 21-Jul-2021
PMCID:PMC8400021
doi:10.3390/ph14080702
PMID:34451799
Understanding crown shyness from a 3-D perspective van der Zee J, Lau A, Shenkin A Ann Bot 13-Mar-2021
PMCID:PMC8557382
doi:10.1093/aob/mcab035
PMID:33713413
31P-NMR Metabolomics Revealed Species-Specific Use of Phosphorous in Trees of a French Guiana Rainforest Gargallo-Garriga A, Sardans J, Llusià J, Peguero G, Asensio D, Ogaya R, Urbina I, Langenhove LV, Verryckt LT, Courtois EA, Stahl C, Grau O, Urban O, Janssens IA, Nolis P, Pérez-Trujillo M, Parella T, Peñuelas J Molecules 31-Aug-2020
PMCID:PMC7504763
doi:10.3390/molecules25173960
PMID:32877991
Different “metabolomic niches” of the highly diverse tree species of the French Guiana rainforests Gargallo-Garriga A, Sardans J, Granda V, Llusià J, Peguero G, Asensio D, Ogaya R, Urbina I, Van Langenhove L, Verryckt LT, Chave J, Courtois EA, Stahl C, Grau O, Klem K, Urban O, Janssens IA, Peñuelas J Sci Rep 24-Apr-2020
PMCID:PMC7181821
doi:10.1038/s41598-020-63891-y
PMID:32332903
Wood allocation trade‐offs between fiber wall, fiber lumen, and axial parenchyma drive drought resistance in neotropical trees Janssen TA, Hölttä T, Fleischer K, Naudts K, Dolman H Plant Cell Environ 03-Feb-2020
PMCID:PMC7155043
doi:10.1111/pce.13687
PMID:31760666

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