Aspectos fenológicos, ecológicos e de produtividade do Pajurá (Couepia bracteosa Bentham) (Chrysobalanaceae)

Abstract

This paper presents data on phenology, ecology and productivity of Pajura (Couepia bracteosa Bentham) for the vicinity of Manaus The species flowers at the height of the rainy season with fruit set at the end of the same. The crop is at the end of the dry season with leaf set just before flowering. Fourteen species of insects were found visiting the flowers, of which thirteen were Hymenoptera and one Lepidoptera. The correlation between number of flowers and number of mature fruit was significant at the 5% level, being significant at the 1% level with other parameters such as fruit lost, number ot immature fruit and crop weight, suggesting once again endogenous control of flowering and fruiting.