Licania ternatensis

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Licania ternatensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Chrysobalanaceae
Genus: Licania
Species:
L. ternatensis
Binomial name
Licania ternatensis
Hook.f. ex Duss

Licania ternatensis[1] is a species of flowering plant native to the southeastern Caribbean. It is known locally as bwa dyab (in Dominica and Martinique), bois gris or bwa gri (in Grenada, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, and Martinique,) or bois de masse or bwa di mas (in Saint Lucia).[2][3][4][5][6] It is one of the most common rainforest trees in Dominica, St Lucia, St Vincent, and Grenada.

Taxonomy

Licania ternatensis was described by Antoine Duss and Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1897. It is in the genus Licania and family Chrysobalanaceae.[7][8] No subspecies is listed in the Catalogue of Life.[7]

Etymology

The local names for Licania ternatensis are French and French Antillean Creole. bois diable and bwa dyab mean "devil wood". bois gris and bwa gri mean "grey wood". bois de masse and bwa di mas mean "mass wood" or "solid wood".

French Antillean Creole French English Ref
bwa bois wood [9]
dyab diable devil [10]
gri gris grey [11]
di mas de masse mass/solid [5][6]

References

  1. Hook.f. ex Duss, Fl. Phan. Antill. Franç.: 259 (1897)
  2. "Bwa Dyab". DOM767. Retrieved 2026-06-09.
  3. "M.M.P.N.D. - Sorting Licania names". www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 2026-06-09.
  4. "Licania ternatensis Hook.f. ex Duss". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2026-06-09.
  5. Timbers of the World (PDF). Vol. 2. Construction Press. 1980.
  6. "Global Forest Resource Assessment 2020". Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
  7. Roskov Y., Kunze T., Orrell T., Abucay L., Paglinawan L., Culham A., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Decock W., De Wever A., Didžiulis V., eds. (2014). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2014 Annual Checklist. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2014. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. https://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2014/details/species/id/4333976
  8. "Library of Congress Web Archives". webarchive.loc.gov. Archived from the original on 2019-08-23. Retrieved 2026-06-09.
  9. Drane, Elodie; Feliot-Rippeault, Marie; Smith-Ravin, Juliette; François-Haugrin, Odile (2018-08-05). "Ethnobotanical Study in Martinique of the Species Behind the Local Plant Name Bwa Kaka". Ethnobiology Letters. 9 (2): 136–149. doi:10.14237/ebl.9.2.2018.1147. ISSN 2159-8126.
  10. Richman, Karen E. (2008). "A more powerful sorcerer: conversion, capital, and Haitan transnational migration" (PDF). New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids. 82 (1–2): 3–45.
  11. Taylor, Douglas (1947). "Phonemes of Caribbean Creole". WORD. 3 (3): 173–179. doi:10.1080/00437956.1947.11659315. ISSN 0043-7956.