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Couroupita

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Couroupita
Couroupita guianensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Asterids
Order:
Ericales
Family:
Lecythidaceae
Genus:
Couroupita

Synonyms[1]
  • Pontopidana Scop.
  • Pekea Juss. 1789, illegitimate homonym, not Aubl. 1775. (syn of Caryocar in Caryocaraceae)
  • Elsholtzia Neck. 1790 illegitimate homonym, not Willd. 1790 (Lamiaceae)

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]
  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
  2. Couroupita nicaraguarensis – Bala De Cañón, Coco De Mono, Paraíso, Zapote De Mico, or Zapote De Mono - Central America, Colombia, Ecuador
  3. Couroupita subsessilis - northern Brazil, northern Peru

References

  1. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Aublet, Jean Baptiste Christophe Fusée. 1775. Histoire des Plantes de la Guiane Françoise 2: 708-712, pl. 282 in French and Latin
  3. ^ Tropicos, Couroupita Aubl.
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