Couroupita Aubl.
EOL Text
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.
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:16
Specimens with Sequences:14
Specimens with Barcodes:14
Species:1
Species With Barcodes:1
Public Records:8
Public Species:1
Public BINs:0
Couroupita is a genus of flowering plants of Lecythidaceae family first described as a genus in 1775.[2][3] It is native to tropical South America and Central America.[1]
- Species[1]
- Couroupita guianensis - Cannonball tree - Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama, east to Amapá and south to Bolivia; naturalized in the West Indies as well as in Bangladesh and Andaman & Nicobar
- Couroupita nicaraguarensis – Bala De Cañón, Coco De Mono, Paraíso, Zapote De Mico, or Zapote De Mono - Central America, Colombia, Ecuador
- Couroupita subsessilis - northern Brazil, northern Peru
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