Bocagea is a genus of plants in the family Annonaceae. It comprises four species distributed in Brazil.[1] [2] Augustin Saint-Hilaire, the French botanist who first formally described the genus, named it after Josephi Mariae de Souza du Bocage, who he said beautifully translated a poem about flowers into Portuguese and illustrated it.
All species of Bocagea are rare and are at least endangered.
Bocagea are shrubs or small trees with two rows of petals, 3 interior and 3 exterior, and 6 stamens.[3]
There are currently four described species in Bocagea: