Couroupita Explained

Couroupita is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lecythidaceae first described as a genus in 1775.^{[1] [2]} It is native to tropical South America and Central America.^[3]

Species^[3]

1. Couroupita guianensis - Cannonball tree -Guyana, Colombia, Ecuador east to Amapá and south to Bolivia; naturalized in the West Indies as well as in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Andaman & Nicobar
2. Couroupita nicaraguarensis – Bala de cañón, coco de mono, paraíso, zapote de mico, or zapote de mono -Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama
3. Couroupita subsessilis - northern Brazil, northern Peru

External links

• • Couroupita on The Lecythidaceae Pages

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/361462#page/89/mode/1up Aublet, Jean Baptiste Christophe Fusée. 1775. Histoire des Plantes de la Guiane Françoise 2: 708-712, pl. 282
2. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40015527 Tropicos, Couroupita Aubl.
3. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=313703 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families