Cunonia
Genus of flowering plants
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::summary Genus of flowering plants ::
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Cunonia is a genus of shrubs and trees in the family Cunoniaceae. The genus has a disjunct distribution, with 24 species endemic to New Caledonia in the Pacific, and one species (Cunonia capensis) in Southern Africa. Leaves are opposite, simple or pinnate with a margin entire to serrate. Interpetiolar stipules are often conspicuous and generally enclose buds to form a spoon-like shape (hence the common name "butterspoon tree" for Cunonia capensis). Flowers are bisexual, white, red (pink to purple), or green, arranged in racemes. The fruit is a capsule opening first around the base then vertically, seeds are winged.
List of species
Southern Africa
New Caledonia
- Cunonia × alticola
- Cunonia aoupiniensis
- Cunonia atrorubens
- Cunonia austrocaledonica
- Cunonia balansae
- Cunonia bopopensis
- Cunonia bullata
- Cunonia cerifera
- Cunonia deplanchei
- Cunonia dickisonii
- Cunonia × koghicola
- Cunonia lenormandii
- Cunonia linearisepala
- Cunonia macrophylla
- Cunonia montana
- Cunonia pseudoverticillata
- Cunonia pterophylla
- Cunonia pulchella
- Cunonia purpurea
- Cunonia rotundifolia
- Cunonia rupicola
- Cunonia schinziana
- Cunonia varijuga
- Cunonia vieillardii
References
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