Botany

Dicypellium

Dicypellium is a genus of three 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). Dicypellium caryophyllatum, known as "pau-cravo" in Brazil, has bark that smells like cloves.

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See also

• ▸Bouvardia longiflora
• ▸Asclepias curassavica
• ▸Elettaria

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