Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Palicourea guianensis Aubl.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Palicourea guianensis
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
Showy Cappel
Names in other languages (12)Ahoquey blanco, Aoquey Blanco, Balsamo real, Tafetan (Dominican Republic), Tafetan (Puerto Rico), audik-amana, audika-retni, ayee wato, ayuwato, bwa-fizi, erva-de-rato, maipuli elepalɨ, maipyuli kiyelapole, matula, padula, patula, palikúrea guyanská, tewitulũ u, tewitulũ wate’e, tewitutũ wate’e
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).
Gentianales
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).
Rubiaceae
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.
Palicourea
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.
guianensis
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
species
Reference species
Palicourea guianensis
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 2026-10-09 10:23.
Photo of Palicourea guianensis Aubl.
Photo: Guillaume Delaitre · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Palicourea guianensis Aubl.
Photo: Federico Muñoz · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Palicourea guianensis Aubl.
Photo: reagan peschke · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Palicourea guianensis Aubl.
Photo: geosesarma · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Palicourea guianensis Aubl.
Photo: Guillaume Delaitre · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Palicourea guianensis Aubl.
Photo: Guillaume Delaitre · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-09 10:23.

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: 6 of 6 is eaten by × is a host of × is visited by × is dispersed by × interacts with × is pollinated by ×

Blocks that do not sit under a navigation concept heading keep the source's own term: no navigation concept has been assigned to them yet.

is eaten by 44 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Condensella filamenta Cicadellidae is eaten by 2 no location
Beetroot Leafhopper Neoaliturus tenellus Cicadellidae is eaten by 2 no location
Deltolidia discolor Cicadellidae is eaten by 2 no location
Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons Vireonidae is eaten by 2 not compared
Showing 4 of 44, by number of studies See more of this type

is a host of 12 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. In the source ontology symbiosis covers mutualism, commensalism and parasitism alike, so this block holds attackers and allies side by side.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
BOLD:AAA8228 Crambidae is a host of 24 not compared
BOLD:AAJ6301 Crambidae is a host of 5 not compared
Puccinia fallax Pucciniaceae is a host of 3 no location
Puccinia palicoureae Pucciniaceae is a host of 2 no location
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is visited by 2 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Grey-breasted Sabrewing Campylopterus largipennis Trochilidae is visited by 1 not compared
Fork-tailed Woodnymph Thalurania furcata Trochilidae is visited by 1 not compared
Showing 2 of 2, by number of studies

is dispersed by 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Puerto Rican Tanagers Nesospingus Nesospingidae is dispersed by 1 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

interacts with 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Meliola mayaguesiana Meliolaceae interacts with 1 no location
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

Pollination

is pollinated by 1 organism

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 Actions
Sombre Hummingbird Eupetomena cirrochloris Trochilidae is pollinated by 1 not compared
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.