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Dicypellium
Sign in to saveDicypellium is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the family Lauraceae, native to tropical South America, in Amazon Basin.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderLaurales
- FamilyLauraceae
Common Name: Brazilian clove bark
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 4
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Lauraceae
- Collections
- INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA), JBRJ
- Recorded in
- Brasil
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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).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dicypellium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.