Guiana-Chestnut (Pachira aquatica)

Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name: Pachira aquatica Aubl.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.: Pachira aquatica
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.: Aubl.
Common names: Guiana-Chestnut, Malabar Chestnut, Malabar chestnut, French peanut, Guiana chestnut, Provision tree, Saba nut, Malabar-chestnut, money tree, provision tree, provision-tree, sabanut, water-chestnut, wild cocoa
Names in other languages (78)
Apompo, Bopo kewe, Cacao cimarron (Dominican Republic), Cacao de monte, Cacau-falso, Cacau-selvagem, Capira, Carolina, Carolina blanca, Castanheira-d'água, Castanheira-da-água, Castanheiro-da-guiana, Castanheiro-do-maranhão, Castanhola, Castano silvestre, Castaño, Ceiba de agua; Amida; Cacao cimarrón; Carolinea, Ceibon de agua, Ceibon de arroyo, Charapa putu, Chataigne d'eau (Lesser Antilles: Guadeloupe), Colorade (Haiti), Colorado, Embiratanha, Glückskastanie, Guyana, Hazo be, Llantias, Malabar Kastanie, Manguba, Marce, Châtaignier de la Guyane, Noisetier de la Guyane, Noix de Malabar, Cacaoyer-rivière, Arbre à monnaie, Pachirier aquatique, Miichrangebard, Mococha, Monguba, Munguba, Noisetier de Cayenne, Pachira, Pachira wodna, Para Ağacı, Piscanquinol, Putuksi, Sapote-grande, Seibon de agua, Seibon de arroyo (Cuba), Sumpf-Rasierpinselbaum, Wasserkastanie, Wilder Kakaobaum, Zapote de agua, Zapote longo, akuli tumu, palalagwa, cacao rivière, castanha-do-Maranhão, castaño de agua, castaño de la Guayana, ceibo de agua, châtaignier de la Guyane, châtaignier sauvage, dzepapa’ɨ, gua li, kakao-larivyé, kakao-sovaj, kastanjasutipuu, mamao, maomao, maumau, mamorana, mamão-rana, mamorana, munguba-rana, momow, mãũ’ɨ, pachira vodná, pachira vodní, strandkastanj, waravru-kamwi, Пахира водная, אגוז מלבר, ศุภโชค, カイエンナット, パキラ, 瓜栗, 發財樹, 馬拉巴栗
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).: Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.: Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).: Malvales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).: Malvaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.: Pachira
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.: aquatica
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.: species
Reference species: Pachira aquatica
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.: accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.: Least concern (LC)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-26 10:42.

Photo of Pachira aquatica Aubl. — Photo: Rony Ristow · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-26 10:42.

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 1 of 7 is pollinated by × 6 more types with data for this species

Pollination

is pollinated by 6 organisms

This term declares that the organism benefits this species. «Visits the flowers of» is a different term and a different block: a visitor is not a pollinator, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented
Flat-faced Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus planirostris Phyllostomidae	is pollinated by	1	not compared
1 source · 1 record Iamara-Nogueira, J., Targhetta, N., Allain, G., Gambarini, A., Pinto, A. R., Rui, A. M., Araújo, A. C., Lopes, A., Pereira-Silva, B., de Camargo, B. B., Machado, C. G., Missagia, C., Scultori, C., Boscolo, D., Fischer, E., Araújo-Oliveira, E. S., Gava, H., Paulino-Neto, H. F., M… Published in globalbioticinteractions/ATLANTIC_POLLINATION Context: no place published · no date published A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
White-Lined Broad-Nosed Bat Platyrrhinus lineatus Phyllostomidae	is pollinated by	1	not compared
1 source · 1 record Iamara-Nogueira, J., Targhetta, N., Allain, G., Gambarini, A., Pinto, A. R., Rui, A. M., Araújo, A. C., Lopes, A., Pereira-Silva, B., de Camargo, B. B., Machado, C. G., Missagia, C., Scultori, C., Boscolo, D., Fischer, E., Araújo-Oliveira, E. S., Gava, H., Paulino-Neto, H. F., M… Published in globalbioticinteractions/ATLANTIC_POLLINATION Context: no place published · no date published A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Pale Spear-Nosed Bat Phyllostomus discolor	is pollinated by	1	not compared
1 source · 1 record Iamara-Nogueira, J., Targhetta, N., Allain, G., Gambarini, A., Pinto, A. R., Rui, A. M., Araújo, A. C., Lopes, A., Pereira-Silva, B., de Camargo, B. B., Machado, C. G., Missagia, C., Scultori, C., Boscolo, D., Fischer, E., Araújo-Oliveira, E. S., Gava, H., Paulino-Neto, H. F., M… Published in globalbioticinteractions/ATLANTIC_POLLINATION Context: no place published · no date published A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Little Yellow-shouldered Bat Sturnira lilium Phyllostomidae	is pollinated by	1	not compared
1 source · 1 record Iamara-Nogueira, J., Targhetta, N., Allain, G., Gambarini, A., Pinto, A. R., Rui, A. M., Araújo, A. C., Lopes, A., Pereira-Silva, B., de Camargo, B. B., Machado, C. G., Missagia, C., Scultori, C., Boscolo, D., Fischer, E., Araújo-Oliveira, E. S., Gava, H., Paulino-Neto, H. F., M… Published in globalbioticinteractions/ATLANTIC_POLLINATION Context: no place published · no date published A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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Interaction data from Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI), GloBI 0.11. Each row keeps the citation its own study published.

Interactions are published at species level: they are not resolved by variety or race.

Each block is headed by the source's own term, read from this species' end — not by a category of ours. Two similar terms are not merged.

«Documented here» means the interaction was observed in this territory. It is not evidence that the species is here, and it does not enter the niche model.

Guiana-Chestnut

Identidad taxonómica

Photos and conservation status

Interacciones documentadas

Pollination

is pollinated by 6 organisms

Acompañantes documentados

Documented uses and recommendations