Biology:Dicypellium
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Short description: Genus of flowering plants
Dicypellium | |
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Illustration 17: Dicypellium caryophyllatum | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Magnoliids |
Order: | Laurales |
Family: | Lauraceae |
Genus: | Dicypellium Nees & Mart. |
Species | |
Dicypellium is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the family Lauraceae, native to tropical South America, in Amazon Basin.
Diagnostic characters: they are trees, with the flowers not involucrated, ovary superior, nine or fewer fertile stamens, anthers four-locular and nine tepals, and the fruit with cupules (see illustration).
Dicypellium caryophyllatum, known as "pau-cravo" in Brazil , has bark that smells like cloves.
References
- Rohwer, J. G.: The Genera Dicypellium, Phyllostemonodaphne, Systemonodaphne and Urbanodendron (Lauraceae). Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik 110(2): 157–171, 1988.
Wikidata ☰ Q5274034 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicypellium.
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