(Last Modified On 11/14/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/14/2012)
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Genus
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COUEPIA Aublet
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PlaceOfPublication
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Hist. P1. Guian. Fr. 519, p1. 207. 1775
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Reference
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Hook. f. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 142:40-49. 1867.
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Description
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Trees or shrubs, with alternate, simple, entire leaves. Flowers in racemes or panicles; hypanthium elongate and somewhat tubular, often gibbous at the base, the lobes 5; petals usually 5; stamens 10-15 or numerous, inserted at the summit of the hypanthium tube, the filaments more or less united at base in a complete or incomplete ring; ovary unilocular, hairy, attached to the side of the hypanthium- tube above the base. Fruit a dry or fleshy drupe, the stone mostly woody, 1- seeded.
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Habit
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Trees shrubs
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