Dicypellium

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Magnoliids
Ordo: Laurales

Familia: Lauraceae
Tribus: Cinnamomeae
Genus: Dicypellium
Species: D. caryophyllatum – D. manausense
Name

Dicypellium Nees & Mart. Hufeland. Ill. 14. (1833)

Type species: Dicypellium caryophyllaceum (Mart.) Nees Hufeland. Ill. 14. (1833)

References

Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. & Martius, C.F.P. von 1833. Hufelandiae Illustratio 14.
International Plant Names Index. 2016. Dicypellium. Published online. Accessed: Oct. 1 2016.
Tropicos.org 2016. Dicypellium. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2016 Oct> 1.

Dicypellium is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the family Lauraceae, native to tropical South America, in Amazon Basin.

Diagnostic characters: they are trees, with the flowers not involucrated, ovary superior, nine or fewer fertile stamens, anthers four-locular and nine tepals, and the fruit with cupules (see illustration).

Dicypellium caryophyllatum, known as "pau-cravo" in Brazil, has bark that smells like cloves.
References

Rohwer, J. G.: The Genera Dicypellium, Phyllostemonodaphne, Systemonodaphne and Urbanodendron (Lauraceae). Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik 110(2): 157–171, 1988.