Coula

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Ordo: Santalales

Familia: Coulaceae
Genus: Coula
Species: C. edulis
Source(s) of checklist:
Name

Coula Baill., Adansonia 3: 61, 64, t. 3. (1862)

monotypic taxon

References

Baillon, H.E. 1862. Adansonia; recueil (périodique) d'observations botaniques 3: 61, 64, t. 3.
Hassler, M. 2019. Coula. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Aug. 9. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Coula. Published online. Accessed: Aug. 8 2019.

Coula is a genus of one to three species of trees native to tropical Africa. Currently placed in the family Olacaceae, recent genetic evidence suggests this family is paraphyletic, and that Coula and related genera should be transferred to a new family Strombosiaceae.

Selected species

Coula cabrae Wildem. & Th. Dur. (syn. C. edulis var. cabrae)
Coula edulis Baill.

References

Parasitic Plants Connection: Olacaceae