Araújo, Diogo;Alves, Marccus
Cunonia
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Species
PHYLUM
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
Cunonia austrocaledonica Cunonia es un género con 31 especies de plantas con flores perteneciente a la familia Cunoniaceae, son árboles nativos de Sudáfrica y Nueva Caledonia. El género comprende 31 especies descritas y de estas, solo 24 aceptadas.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 95
- With media
- 37
- Family
- Cunoniaceae
- Collections
- RSA, MEL, MO, MNHN
- Recorded in
- New Caledonia
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Encyclopedic overview
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thumb|Cunonia austrocaledonica - MHNT
Cunonia is a genus of shrubs and trees in the family Cunoniaceae. The genus has a disjunct distribution, with 24 species endemic to New Caledonia in the Pacific, and one species (Cunonia capensis) in Southern Africa. Leaves are opposite, simple or pinnate with a margin entire to serrate. Interpetiolar stipules are often conspicuous and generally enclose buds to form a spoon-like shape (hence the common name "butterspoon tree" for Cunonia capensis). Flowers are bisexual, white, red (pink to purple), or green, arranged in racemes. The fruit is a capsule opening first around the base then vertically, seeds are winged.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cunonia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.