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Coussapoa Aubl.

Genus

Angiosperms > Rosales > Urticaceae

Characteristics

Dioecious trees, usually epiphytic when juvenile. Leaves spiral, basifixed, entire to more or less definitely undulate or crenate; stipules fully amplexicaul, leaving a scar completely surrounding the stem. Inflorescences usually paired at the nodes, the staminate dichotomously compounded small globular heads, the pistillate superficially simple or (in C. magnifolia) obscurely compound heads. Staminate flowers with 4 (-3) free tepals and 2 completely fused stamens. Pistillate flowers tubular or clavate, the limb thickened and calyptriform and minutely porous much as in Cecropia, the ovary superior, with a barely exserted penicillate stigma. Fruit a scantily fleshy syncarp.
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Trees or shrubs, mostly hemi-epiphytic with aerial roots; internodes solid. Scars of the stipules usually oblique; blade basally attached, entire, pinnately veined (to subtrinerved). Inflorescences branched or unbranched (and unicapitate), with flowers in terminal (sub)globose heads, with or without interfloral bracts. Perianth tubular; stamens 1, 2 or 3, connate; stigma penicillate to subpeltate. Fruit small (1-2 mm long), achene-like (or drupaceous in C. asperifolia), enclosed by the enlarged, ± fleshy perianth; endosperm present, cotyledons flat.
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Distribution

Coussapoa world distribution map, present in Panama

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:40759-1
WFO ID wfo-4000009523
COL ID 3V3B
BDTFX ID 122739
INPN ID 731161
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Synonyms

Coussapoa

Lower taxons

Coussapoa arachnoidea Coussapoa argentea Coussapoa asperifolia Coussapoa batavorum Coussapoa brevipes Coussapoa chocoensis Coussapoa cinnamomea Coussapoa cinnamomifolia Coussapoa contorta Coussapoa crassivenosa Coussapoa cupularis Coussapoa fulvescens Coussapoa macerrima Coussapoa orthoneura Coussapoa ovalifolia Coussapoa pachyphylla Coussapoa parviceps Coussapoa parvifolia Coussapoa purpusii Coussapoa scabra Coussapoa david-smithii Coussapoa dolichandra Coussapoa duquei Coussapoa echinata Coussapoa ferruginea Coussapoa floccosa Coussapoa herthae Coussapoa jatun-sachensis Coussapoa latifolia Coussapoa leprieurii Coussapoa longepedunculata Coussapoa manuensis Coussapoa microcarpa Coussapoa microcephala Coussapoa nitida Coussapoa nymphaeifolia Coussapoa sprucei Coussapoa tessmannii Coussapoa tolimensis Coussapoa trinervia Coussapoa valaria Coussapoa vannifolia Coussapoa villosa Coussapoa darienensis Coussapoa peruviana Coussapoa oligocephala Coussapoa viridifolia Coussapoa glaberrima Coussapoa curranii Coussapoa angustifolia
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