# Qualea parviflora

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***Qualea parviflora***, known as ***pau-terra*** in [Portuguese](/source/Portuguese_language), is a [deciduous](/source/Deciduous) [tree](/source/Tree) indigenous to [Bolivia](/source/Bolivia), [Brazil](/source/Brazil), and [Paraguay](/source/Paraguay).[2] The tree favors dry climates like the tropical savanna of the [cerrado](/source/Cerrado).[3][4][5]

## Description

*Qualea parviflora* grows up to 8 m (26 ft) tall. It flowers between September and December. Each flower has one light purple petal, a single stamen, a spurred calyx, and a three-parted ovary. *Pau-terra* can be distinguished from a close relative *[Qualea multiflora](/source/Qualea_multiflora)* by its smaller flowers.[6]

## Ecology

The flowers are pollinated by bees.[6] The seeds are eaten by [buprestid](/source/Buprestid) [beetles](/source/Beetle) and small [Hymenoptera](/source/Hymenoptera) species.[6] [Caterpillars](/source/Caterpillar) of the [dalcerid moth](/source/Dalceridae) *[Dalcera abrasa](/source/Dalcera_abrasa)* feed on *Quaela parviflora*.[7]

## References

1. Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von (1824). ["Qualea parviflora"](https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/744646). *Nova genera et species plantarum :quas in itinere per Brasiliam MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I., Bavariae regis augustissimi instituto /* (in Latin). Impensis Auctoris. pp. 135–136.

1. ["*Qualea parviflora* Mart."](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:870961-1). *Plants of the World Online*. Royal Botanical Gardens Kew. Retrieved 4 August 2019.

1. Gonçalves-Alvim, SJ; Collevatti, RG; Fernandes, GW (August 2004). "Effects of genetic variability and habitat of *Qualea parviflora* (Vochysiaceae) on herbivory by free-feeding and gall-forming insects.". *Annals of Botany*. **94** (2): 259–68. [doi:10.1093/aob/mch136](https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mch136). [PMC 4242161](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4242161). [PMID 15234928](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15234928)

1. Heckman, Charles W. (1998). [*The Pantanal of Poconé: Biota and Ecology in the Northern Section of the World’s Largest Pristine Wetland*](https://books.google.com/books?id=PZmasYsyjg4C&pg=PA188). Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9780792348634.

1. Lorenzi, Harri & Flora, Instituto Plantarum de Estudos da (2002). [*Brazilian Trees: 4th ed*](https://books.google.com/books?id=1ypFAQAAIAAJ). Instituto Plantarum de Estudos da Flora. p. 365. ISBN 9788586714177.

1. Custódio, Luciana Nascimento; Carmo-Oliveira, Renata; Mendes-Rodrigues, Clesnan; Oliveira, Paulo Eugênio (September 2014). "Pre-dispersal seed predation and abortion in species of Callisthene and Qualea (Vochysiaceae) in a Neotropical savanna". *Acta Botanica Brasilica*. **28** (3): 309–320. [doi:10.1590/0102-33062014abb3064](https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-33062014abb3064)

1. ["HOSTS - The Hostplants and Caterpillars Database at the Natural History Museum"](https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants/search/detail.dsml?PK_MainID=8227&PSpeciesqtype=starts+with%3dstarts+with%3dmalvae%3dFamily%3d13%253A1%253A0%3dstarts+with%3dstarts+with%3dpyrgus%3dstarts+with%3dstarts+with%3d%2525&beginIndex=1501&listPageURL=list%2edsml%3fbeginIndex%3d1500%26PSpeciesqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%253dstarts%2bwith%253dmalvae%253dFamily%253d13%25253A1%25253A0%253dstarts%2bwith%253dstarts%2bwith%253dpyrgus%253dstarts%2bwith%253dstarts%2bwith%253d%252525&). *www.nhm.ac.uk*. Retrieved 4 August 2019.

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