Couepia Aubl.

Genus

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Chrysobalanaceae

Characteristics

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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