Biology:Dicypellium

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Dicypellium
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Illustration 17: Dicypellium caryophyllatum
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Laurales
Family: Lauraceae
Genus: Dicypellium
Nees & Mart.
Species
  • Dicypellium caryophyllatum (Mart.) Nees
  • Dicypellium manausense W.A.Rodrigues

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