Couroupita Aubl.
Distribution
Native to:
Bolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela
Introduced into:
Andaman Is., Bangladesh, Brazil Southeast, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Marshall Is., Nicobar Is., Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Windward Is.
Synonyms
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Elsholtzia Neck. in Elem. Bot. 2: 256 (1790), opus utique oppr.
- Pekea Juss. in Gen. Pl.: 249 (1789), nom. illeg.
- Pontopidana Scop. in Intr. Hist. Nat.: 195 (1777)
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Sources
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Interactive Key to Seed Plants of Malesia and Indo-China
- The Malesian Key Group (2010) Interactive Key to Seed Plants of Malesia and Indo-China (Version 2.0, 28 Jul 2010) The Nationaal Herbarium Nederland Leiden and The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Neotropikey
- Milliken, W., Klitgard, B. and Baracat, A. (2009 onwards), Neotropikey - Interactive key and information resources for flowering plants of the Neotropics.
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0