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Jupunba curvicarpa, commonly known as orelha de negro, is a species of flowering plant of the genus Jupunba in the family Fabaceae. It is a tree native northern and northeastern Brazil, French Guiana, and Guyana. It grows in lowland tropical rainforest, including non-flooded (terre firme) forest, mixed forest, on river banks, and near swamps. It range includes the Guianan moist forests, Guianan freshwater swamp forests, Uatuma–Trombetas moist forests, Marajó várzea forests, and Amazon–Orinoco–Southern Caribbean mangroves ecoregions.
Two species are accepted.
Jupunba abbottii · Jupunba barbouriana · Jupunba curvicarpa var. rodriguesii · Jupunba zolleriana · Jupunba adenophora · Jupunba alexandri var. troyana · Jupunba alexandri · Jupunba asplenifolia · Jupunba auriculata · Jupunba brachystachya · Jupunba campestris · Jupunba cochleata var. moniliformis
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Jupunba curvicarpa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
