Dicypellium: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Laurales
- Family
- Lauraceae
- Genus
- Dicypellium
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Dicypellium
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Dicypellium
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).
Dicypellium caryophyllatum, known as "pau-cravo" in Brazil, has bark that smells like cloves.
...Dicypellium in languages:
- Chinese
- 丁香桂屬
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Actinodaphne
- Adenodaphne
- Aiouea
- Alseodaphne
- Alseodaphnopsis
- Aniba
- Aspidostemon
- Beilschmiedia
- Caryodaphnopsis
- Cassytha
- Chlorocardium
- Cinnadenia
- Cinnamomum
- Clinostemon
- Cryptocarya
- Cryptocarya septentrionalis
- Damburneya
- Dehaasia
- Dicypellium
- Dodecadenia
- Endiandra
- Endlicheria
- Eusideroxylon
- Hexapora
- Hypodaphnis
- Kubitzkia
- Laurus
- Licaria
- Lindera
- Litsea
- Machilus
- Mespilodaphne
- Mezilaurus
- Nectandra
- Neocinnamomum
- Neolitsea
- Nothaphoebe
- Ocotea
- Ocotea cymosa
- Paraia
- Parasassafras
- Persea
- Phoebe
- Phyllostemonodaphne
- Pleurothyrium
- Potameia
- Potoxylon
- Rhodostemonodaphne
- Sassafras
- Sextonia
- Sinopora
- Syndiclis
- Triadodaphne
- Umbellularia
- Urbanodendron
- Williamodendron
- Yasunia