Dicypellium

Dicypellium
Illustration 17: Dicypellium caryophyllatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Magnoliids
Order: Laurales
Family: Lauraceae
Genus: Dicypellium
Nees & Mart.
Species
  • Dicypellium caryophyllatum (Mart.) Nees
  • Dicypellium manausense W.A.Rodrigues

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.

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