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Couroupita
Mori, S. A. & Prance, G. T. (2006 onwards) The Lecythidaceae Pages (http://sweetgum.nybg.org/lp/index.html). The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York.
Description of the genus
Canopy trees. Leaves born in apical whorls of 7-40 leaves, medium to large-sized (8-30 cm long). Inflorescences cauliflorous, usually racemes or infrequently once-branched paniculate arrangements of racemes. Flowers zygomorphic. Sepals 6. Petals 6. Androecium prolonged on one side into a flat hood; staminodes anther-bearing. Ovary 6-locular; ovules numerous. Fruit indehiscent, dropping from tree at maturity, spherical or nearly so, pericarp fragile, often cracking when fruit hits ground. Seeds 10-15 mm long, numerous, ovate to lenticular, embedded in pulp which oxidizes bluish-green when exposed to air; dry pulp breaks into 6 segments. Worldwide: In Central America from El Salvador into eastern Panama and in South America in Amazonia and the Guianas Mozambique: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): CouroupitaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Couroupita
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Couroupita
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Couroupita
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Couroupita
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Couroupita
JSTOR Plant Science: Couroupita
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Couroupita
Plants of the World Online: Couroupita
Tropicos: Couroupita
Wikipedia: Couroupita
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