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Caesalpinia echinata - Fruit - Click to enlarge!

Fruit; Botanical Garden, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil; 1/2013 © Jörn Germer

Caesalpinia echinata - Upper surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper surface of leaf; Botanical Garden, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil; 1/2013 © Jörn Germer

Caesalpinia echinata - Lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Lower surface of leaf; Botanical Garden, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil; 1/2013 © Jörn Germer

Caesalpinia echinata - Leaf - Click to enlarge!

Leaf; Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; 7/2007 © Sonja Germer

Caesalpinia echinata - Twig section with thorns - Click to enlarge!

Twig section with thorns; Botanical Garden, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil; 1/2013 © Jörn Germer

Caesalpinia echinata - Juvenile tree - Click to enlarge!

Juvenile tree; Botanical Garden, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil; 1/2013 © Jörn Germer

Caesalpinia echinata - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; 7/2007 © Sonja Germer

Caesalpinia echinata - Bark - Click to enlarge!

Bark; Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; 7/2007 © Sonja Germer

Caesalpinia echinata - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Botanical Garden, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil; 1/2013 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 645
Date of entry: 27.08.2007
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Brazilwood

German: Brasilholz

Portuguese: Pau-brasil

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2595)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2492)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2107)

      Order: Fabales (237)

        Family: Fabaceae (237)(family description)

          Genus: Caesalpinia (6)

            Epithet: echinata Lam. (1)

Synonym: Guilandina echinata (Lam.) Spreng.

echinata => set with prickles or spines (echinus, a hedgehog, or a prickle)

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: tree

Flower colour: yellow

External links

Check for Caesalpinia echinata at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

Literature

  • [23] Lorenzi,H. (2002): Brazilian trees: A guide to the identification and cultivation of Brazilian native trees. Plantarum, Nova Odessa, São Paulo, Brazil.

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