(Last Modified On 9/4/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/4/2013)
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Genus
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Coutarea Aubl.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Hist. P1. Guiane 314. 1775.
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Note
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TYPE: C. speciosa Aubl.
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Description
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Shrubs or small trees. Leaves membranous, glabrate, petiolate; stipules short, acute. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, cymose, the flowers occasionally sol- itary (not Panama). Flowers with the calyx 5-8-lobed, deciduous in fruit; corolla funnel shaped or campanulate, the tube asymmetric, curved, gibbous ventricose, the lobes 5-8, short, plicate imbricate; anthers exserted, the filaments free, not attached to the corolla tube; ovules numerous, the ovary 2-celled. Fruits capsular, compressed oval, usually coriaceous and conspicuously lenticellate, dehiscing longitudinally; seeds broadly winged.
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Habit
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Shrubs or small trees
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Distribution
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ranges from Mexico to Argentina, with about 7 species in the genus.
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Note
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I have some doubts as to whether this genus belongs in the Rubiaceae. The unique corolla shape, the staminal filaments being free of the corolla tube, and the unsusal shape of the fruit are the principal characters which render the genus suspect.
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