Couroupita

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Ordo: Ericales

Familia: Lecythidaceae
Subfamilia: Lecythidoideae
Genus: Couroupita
Species: C. guianensis – C. nicaraguarensis – C. subsessilis
Name

Couroupita Aubl., Hist. Pl. Guiane 708. t. 282. 1775.
Synonyms

Pontopidana Scop., Introd. 195. Jan-Apr 1777.

Notes

The following names are sometimes seen, all stated without evidence. †C. ovata – †C. santanderensis – †C. tertiaria
References

Berry, E.W. 1936. Miocene plants from Colombia, South America. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 63(2):53-66.

Farr, E. R. & Zijlstra, G. eds. (1996-) Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). 2009 Oct 01 [1].

Hollick, A. and E. W. Berry 1924. A Late Tertiary flora from Bahia, Brazil. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Geology 5:11-137.

Paleobiology Database. Accessed 2009 Nov 02 [2].

Vernacular names
suomi: Kuulapuut

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

Species[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
Couroupita nicaraguarensis – Bala de cañón, coco de mono, paraíso, zapote de mico, or zapote de mono -Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama
Couroupita subsessilis - northern Brazil, northern Peru

References

Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Aublet, Jean Baptiste Christophe Fusée. 1775. Histoire des Plantes de la Guiane Françoise 2: 708-712, pl. 282 in French and Latin
Tropicos, Couroupita Aubl.