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Oecopetalum
Sign in to saveOecopetalum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Metteniusaceae, native to Mexico and Central America. They are trees with edible fruits, and prefer to grow in the transition zone between cloud forests and tropical forests. Locals collect, roast, consume and occasionally sell the fruit, which is bitter enough to give Oecopetalum mexicanum the name cachichín in the Totonaca language, meaning "bitter fruit".
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It sits within the topics Asterid genera and Metteniusaceae.
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderMetteniusales
- FamilyMetteniusaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 18
- With media
- 7
- Family
- Metteniusaceae
- Collections
- ECOSUR, IBUNAM, NY, UJAT, LL, TEX
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Metteniusaceae
- Image
- Icac001-01-Oecopetalum-mexicanum-Cacaté.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
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Oecopetalum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Metteniusaceae, native to Mexico and Central America. They are trees with edible fruits, and prefer to grow in the transition zone between cloud forests and tropical forests. Locals collect, roast, consume and occasionally sell the fruit, which is bitter enough to give Oecopetalum mexicanum the name cachichín in the Totonaca language, meaning "bitter fruit".
==Species== Currently accepted species include: Oecopetalum greenmanii Standl. & Steyerm. Oecopetalum mexicanum Greenm. & C.H.Thomps.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oecopetalum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.