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Coutarea
Sign in to saveCoutarea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is native to southern Mexico, Central America, South America and the West Indies.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderGentianales
- FamilyRubiaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 152
- With media
- 27
- Family
- Rubiaceae
- Collections
- CICY, CEPLAC, MO, CPATSA, UEMA, ASU
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Brasil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Colombia, Nicaragua, Paraguay
Wikidata facts
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Rubiaceae
- Image
- Plantarum indigenarum et exoticarum icones ad vivum coloratae, oder, Sammlung nach der Natur gemalter Abbildungen inn- und ausländlischer Pflanzen, für Liebhaber und Beflissene der Botanik (14206637746).jpg
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Coutarea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is native to southern Mexico, Central America, South America and the West Indies.
These plants are woody trees and shrubs with oppositely arranged leaves and terminal inflorescences. The large, showy flowers are white, pink, red, or purplish, sometimes with whitish or greenish markings. The fruit is a woody, flattened capsule, containing seeds with large wings.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Coutarea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.