# Hirtella

Hirtella is a genus of 110 species of woody trees in family Chrysobalanaceae. It was first described as a genus by Linnaeus in 1753. Hirtella naturally occurs in tropical forests throughout Latin America, the West Indies, southeast Africa, and Madagascar. The flowers are mainly pollinated by butterflies.

## Species

List of accepted species according to Kew:
* Hirtella adderleyi - S Venezuela
* Hirtella adenophora - Meta
* Hirtella aequatoriensis - Ecuador
* Hirtella americana - Guerrero to Ecuador; Cuba, Dom Rep
* Hirtella angustifolia - Brazil
* Hirtella angustissima - Guyana, Fr Guiana
* Hirtella araguariensis - N Brazil, Fr Guiana
* Hirtella aramangensis - N Peru
* Hirtella arenosa - N Brazil
* Hirtella bahiensis - Bahia, Espírito Santo
* Hirtella barnebyi - Rondônia
* Hirtella barrosoi - Rio de Janeiro
* Hirtella beckii - Bolivia
* Hirtella bicornis - trop South America
* Hirtella brachystachys - SE Colombia, S Venezuela, NW Brazil
* Hirtella bullata - N South America
* Hirtella burchellii - Brazil, Peru, Bolivia
* Hirtella caduca - Guyana, Bolívar
* Hirtella carbonaria - S Colombia, N Ecuador
* Hirtella castillana - SE Colombia, S Venezuela
* Hirtella ciliata - Guyana, Fr Guiana, Brazil
* Hirtella conduplicata - Amazonas B
* Hirtella confertiflora - Amazonas V
* Hirtella cordifolia - Amazonas V
* Hirtella corymbosa - Bahia, Espírito Santo
* Hirtella couepiiflora - Fr Guiana, Amapá
* Hirtella cowanii - Amazonas V
* Hirtella davisii - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Venezuela, N Brazil, Fr Guiana, Guyana
* Hirtella deflexa - S Venezuela
* Hirtella dorvalii - N Brazil
* Hirtella duckei - trop South America
* Hirtella elongata - NW South America
* Hirtella enneandra - Colombia
* Hirtella eriandra - trop South America
* Hirtella excelsa - W South America
* Hirtella fasciculata - N Brazil
* Hirtella floribunda - Minas Gerais
* Hirtella glabrata - S Venezuela, N Brazil
* Hirtella glandulistipula - Fr Guiana, N Brazil
* Hirtella glandulosa - trop South America
* Hirtella glaziovii - S Brazil
* Hirtella gracilipes - trop South America
* Hirtella guainiae - trop South America
* Hirtella guatemalensis - Central America
* Hirtella guyanensis - Venezuela, Guyana
* Hirtella hebeclada - SE Brazil
* Hirtella hispidula - trop South America
* Hirtella hoehnei - Brazil
* Hirtella insignis - Bahia, Espírito Santo
* Hirtella juruenensis - Mato Grosso
* Hirtella kuhlmannii - Mato Grosso, Pará
* Hirtella lancifolia - Pará
* Hirtella latifolia - Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
* Hirtella lemsii - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras
* Hirtella leonotis - N Colombia, N Venezuela
* Hirtella liesneri - SE Colombia, S Venezuela
* Hirtella lightioides - Peru, Bolivia
* Hirtella longifolia - Amazonas B
* Hirtella longipedicellata - N Brazil, S Venezuela
* Hirtella macrophylla - trop South America
* Hirtella macrosepala - E Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname
* Hirtella magnifolia - SE Colombia, N Peru, N Brazil
* Hirtella maguirei - Meta
* Hirtella margae - Guyana, Suriname, Fr Guiana
* Hirtella martiana - Brazil
* Hirtella mucronata - Guyana, Suriname, N Brazil
* Hirtella mutisii - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
* Hirtella myrmecophila - N Brazil
* Hirtella obidensis - Guyana, Suriname, N Brazil
* Hirtella orbicularis - Cerro Duida
* Hirtella paniculata - St. Vincent, Trinidad, N South America
* Hirtella papillata - Costa Rica, Honduras
* Hirtella paraensis - NE Brazil
* Hirtella parviunguis - Espírito Santo
* Hirtella pauciflora - Ecuador
* Hirtella pendula - Lesser Antilles
* Hirtella physophora - N South America
* Hirtella pilosissima - trop South America
* Hirtella pimichina - S Venezuela, N Brazil
* Hirtella piresii - trop South America
* Hirtella punctillata - NE South America
* Hirtella racemosa - Veracruz to Bolivia, Trinidad, Jamaica
* Hirtella radamii - Roraima
* Hirtella rasa - Peru, Acre
* Hirtella revillae - N Peru
* Hirtella rodriguesii - Loreto, NW Brazil
* Hirtella rugosa - Puerto Rico, Dom Rep
* Hirtella santosii - Bahia
* Hirtella scaberula - Amazonas B
* Hirtella scabra - N South America
* Hirtella schultesii - NW South America
* Hirtella silicea - NE South America, Trinidad
* Hirtella sprucei - Brazil
* Hirtella standleyi - Loreto
* Hirtella subglanduligera - Acre
* Hirtella subscandens - S Venezuela, N Brazil
* Hirtella suffulta - N Brazil, Fr Guiana
* Hirtella tentaculata - NE South America
* Hirtella tenuifolia - N Brazil, Fr Guiana, Suriname
* Hirtella thouarsiana - Madagascar
* Hirtella tocantina - N Brazil, Peru, Bolivia
* Hirtella triandra - West Indies; C Mexico to Bolivia
* Hirtella trichotoma - Costa Rica
* Hirtella tubiflora - Costa Rica to Ecuador
* Hirtella ulei - SE Colombia, S Venezuela, N Brazil
* Hirtella vesiculosa - SE Colombia
* Hirtella zanzibarica - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia