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Lecythidaceae

Known as: Brazil nut family 
A plant family of the order Lecythidales, subclass Dilleniidae, class Magnoliopsida.
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Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Synthesis and Characterization of Silver Nanoparticles Using Cannonball Leaves and Their Cytotoxic Activity against MCF-7 Cell Line
Cannonball (Couroupita guianensis) is a tree belonging to the family Lecythidaceae. Various parts of the tree have been reported… 
Review
2011
Review
2011
“Made in Brazil”: Human Dispersal of the Brazil Nut (Bertholletia excelsa, Lecythidaceae) in Ancient Amazonia1
Abstract“Made in Brazil”: Human Dispersal of the Brazil Nut (Bertholletia excelsa, Lecythidaceae) in Ancient Amazonia. The Brazil… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Anti-Arthritic Activity of Bartogenic Acid Isolated from Fruits of Barringtonia racemosa Roxb. (Lecythidaceae)
The fruits of Barringtonia racemosa are prescribed in the ayurvedic literature for the treatment of pain, inflammation and… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Evolution of Lecythidaceae with an emphasis on the circumscription of neotropical genera: information from combined ndhF and trnL-F sequence data.
The Lecythidaceae comprise a pantropical family best known for the edible seeds of the Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) and the… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Screening of plants acting against Heterometrus laoticus scorpion venom activity on fibroblast cell lysis.
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Survival and development of different life stages of Bactrocera zonata (Diptera: Tephritidae) reared at five constant temperatures compared to other fruit fly species
is native from India where it was firstrecorded in Bengal (Kapoor, 1993). It is present in numerouscountries of tropical Asia… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Antinociceptive effect and toxicological study of the aqueous bark extract of Barringtonia racemosa on rats.
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Patterns and relative rates of nucleotide and insertion/deletion evolution at six chloroplast intergenic regions in new world species of the Lecythidaceae.
Insertions and deletions (indels) in chloroplast noncoding regions are common genetic markers to estimate population structure… 
1999
1999
Host utilization of the Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae) by sympatric wood-boring species of Palame (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Acanthocinini)
Abstract Estimates of the total number of arthropod species in existence are based, in part, upon assumptions about both the host… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Phylogenetic relationships of Lecythidaceae: a cladistic analysis using rbcL sequence and morphological data.
This study examined in detail the rbcL sequence and morphological support for subfamilial relationships and monophyly of… 
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